Photo of the stele of the code of Hammurabi. The code of Hammurabi is the longest surviving Old Babylonian texts from the period code that has been seen the first example of the basic rules that control the government. The constitution of traditional.And it also shows that both the accused and accuser had the chance to give evidence nature is occasionally of the many shows that the code may be better understood as encoding of Hummurabi supplement decision of the court. Their purpose may be to glorify. Hammurabi more than modern code law or the constitution. However, copying a generation later found that it was used as a form of law and justice reasoning