Babylonian attitude towards propriety was led by The Code of Hamurabi, wich was a set of laws created in Mesopotamia, around the XVIII century BC, by King Hamurabi of the first Babylonian dynasty. The code was based on the Lex Talionis, which stated "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”. Although it may seem a little barbaric for nowadays standards, the code was actually very sophisticated at that time, and provided a set of measures regarding the guarantee of private property, recognizing many ways of disposing it, such as sale, lease, barter, gift, dedication.
