*Law #540-569 ~ BOOK FOURTEEN: THE BOOK OF JUDGES (Law of Sanhedrin and Punishments)

Law #540 Appoint Judges (Deut. 16:18)

Law #541 Not to appoint Judges who are not familiar with judicial procedures (Deut. 1:17)

Law #542 Decide by majority in case of disagreement (Ex. 23:2)

Law #543 The court must not execute through a majority of one; at least a majority of two is required (Ex. 23:2)

Law #544 A judge who presented an acquittal plea must not present an argument for conviction in capital cases (Deut. 23:2)

***Law #545 The courts must carry out the death penalty of stoning (Deut. 22:24)

***Law #546 The courts must carry out the death penalty of burning (Lev. 20:14)

***Law #547 The courts must carry out the death penalty of the sword (Ex. 21:20)

***Law #548 The courts must carry out the death penalty of strangulation (Lev. 20:10)

***Law #549 The courts must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry (Deut. 21:22)

Law #550 Bury the executed on the day they are killed (Deut. 21:23)

Law #551 Not to delay burial overnight (Deut. 21:23)

***Law #552 The court must not let the sorcerer live (Ex. 22:17)

***Law #553 The court must give lashes to the wrongdoer (Ex. 25:3)

***Law #554 The court must not exceed the prescribed number of lashes (Deut. 25:3)

Law #555 The court must not kill anybody on circumstantial evidence (Ex. 23:7)

Law #556 The court must not punish anybody who was forced to do a crime (Deut. 22:26)

Law #557 A judge must not pity the murderer or assaulter at a trial (Deut. 19:13)

Law #558 A judge must not have mercy on the poor man at the trial (Lev. 19:15)

Law #559 A judge must not respect the great man at the trial (Lev. 19:15)

Law #560 A judge must not decide unjustly the case of the habitual transgressor (Ex. 23:6)

Law #561 A judge must not pervert justice (Lev. 19:15)

Law #562 A judge must not pervert a case involving a convert or orphan (Deut. 24:17)

Law #563 Judge righteously (Lev. 19:15)

Law #564 The judge must not fear a violent man in judgment (Deut. 1:17)

Law #565 Judges must not accept bribes (Ex. 23:8)

Law #566 Judges must not accept testimony unless both parties are present (Ex. 23:1)

**Law #567 Not to curse judges (Ex. 22:27)  Actually found in vs. 28

**Law #568 Not to curse the head of state or leader of the Sanhedrin (Ex. 22:27)  Actually found in vs. 28

Law #569 Not to curse any upstanding Jew (Lev. 19:14)