Don't know if this was ever enforced, but in the Code of Hammurabi (~1754 BC), Sections 229 and 230 prescribed capital punishment in the event a builder constru

Don't know if this was ever enforced, but in the Code of Hammurabi (~1754 BC), Sections 229 and 230 prescribed capital punishment in the event a builder constructed a house, which then fell and killed someone. http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/assyria/hammurabi.html#Hammurabi.Law.228 http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/assyria/hammurabi.html#Ham...