Dowry is as old as we find the written traces of it in the oldest records, such as the Code of Hammurabi (the best preserved ancient law code was created in ca. 1760 BC in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi) as a pre-existing custom, prescribing only regulations for how it was to be handled and also included regulations for a bride price. If a woman died without sons, her husband had to refund the dowry but could deduct the value of the bride price; the dowry would normally have been the larger of the sums. It marks the first record of long-lasting customs, such as the wife being entitled to her dowry at her husband's death as part of her dower, her dowry being inheritable only by her own children, not by her husband's children by other women, and a woman not being entitled to a (subsequent) inheritance if her father had provided her dowry in marriage.