In other words, you can demand restitution for your loss, but no more; this is about justice, not revenge. The law also limited kings’ accumulation of wealth, issued special protections for orphans and widows, and required that laborers were paid fairly and promptly. It even proposed a year of Jubilee every fifty years, in which prisoners and slaves would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and wealth would be redistributed. (Whether this proposal was ever honored is a matter of debate.)
