The daily documents mean all the legal contracts and transactions that were concluded between individuals and were proven in writing on a clay number. These documents are of great importance in studying the ancient economic and social history because they help us to know the nature of the legal systems that prevailed in the ancient Iraqi society.
The reality of the application of these regulations and the manner in which the Iraqis practice them, and these documents fill in at the same time some of the gaps in the discovered laws, as these documents include all types of transactions related to personal status such as marriage, divorce, adoption or other economic and financial activities such as sale, rent and borrowing.