Marriage bond is an important and holy bond, therefore, the dissolution of such a bond needs specific rules. Cuneiform texts, including those of written laws, specify certain cases in which marriage bond could be dissolved. First of all, most marriage bonds were dissolved by divorce. Ancient Iraqi Laws permitted husbands to divorce their wives in certain cases but they should conpensate their wives by paying certain amount of silver. Wives also could ask their husbands to divorce them in specific cases. Marriage Bond could also be dissolved if any of the couple died or was punished by death or if the husband ran away and left his wife for a long period of time. The Hammurabi code established all possible cases in which wives could remarry, i.e. , their marriage bond was dissolved. The study tries to make a comparison between ancient rules of marriage dissolution and what is now in Islamic and recent laws.