-Slaves under the code had the status of property or merchandise.
-Slaves had rights and were permitted to own property, conduct business, and marry free women.
-Manumission (the act of slave owners freeing their slaves) was allowed through both self-purchase or adoption by the owner.
-The legal penalties for free people and slaves were very different.
-An example of this would be the drastic difference in the rewards or penalties for surgeons operating on free persons versus slaves.
-The penalty for killing or removing the eye of an upper-class man was severing off the physician's hand, but if a commoner or slave was killed, only compensation was necessary

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