Printing a book, professing the medical doctrine of circulation of blood, sale of coin to foreigners, having gold in the house - all these have been crime at different times.
* Roman law of Twelve Tables, Babylonian Code of Hammurabi and other early legal systems did not list homicide or ordinary theft among crimes. The criminals could be exonerated by giving compensation or by surrendering to the injured clan as a substitute worker for the victim clan.
* In the ancient society of Peru, the destruction of a bridge was the most serious crime.