Marriage is an important social bond that aims to create a relationship between genealogy and not between individuals in every society, and this bond has existed since the existence of life and man on earth.
Thus, this link existed in order to achieve social control in an organized and legitimate manner by creating a pattern of stable kings, whereby the existence of the individual and society can be preserved through the formation and continuation of the matter, as it is thus one of the most important foundations on which the social structure has been built since ancient times.
The marriage bond must have passed through successive ages through several developmental stages before its stage of maturity, as it was subject in every stage to the level of the civilization process and the social development that individuals reach and the nature of the circumstances that surrounded them.
Despite the lack of adequate information about the primitive forms of marriage bond in the ancient Iraqi society during the ages preceding its formation, it is assumed that it passed the same developmental stages as other primitive societies before their maturity.
In the following historical eras (Sumerian - Akkadian - Babylonian - Assyrian), the main idea on which the provisions mentioned in the old Iraqi laws and what was included in the contracts of daily life was the perception of the marriage bond, especially as it is one of the most important social bonds that are established between individuals according to the foundations and conditions. Legitimacy because it is the first basic building block in the formation of the family and ensuring its continuity and the stability of society.
Since early periods in the ancient history of Iraq, kings have been concerned with drafting legal articles that regulate family affairs and marital relations, in a manner that ensures their preservation, and as reflected in the many marriage contracts discovered that were found written on the clay number, the extent of the precise organization of the formation of life in the family and the nature of the existing ties between the spouses.
The family organization in the ancient Iraqi society was based on marriage to one woman since the Sumerian era, and this continued in the following eras, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Chaldean.