Are there any experts who could tell me more about Mesopotamian marriage contracts? Specifically Akkadian, I believe ... time period *around* 1800 BC.

What I want to know is how a man could be tricked into marrying the wrong woman and why he wouldn't simply divorce her right away. I can accept that he could *sleep* with the wrong woman, but what I'm reading indicates that he would have had to sign very clear contract papers that specified the proper names of both parties.

So if the wrong woman ended up in his bed, wouldn't that be grounds for non-marriage, just as it is today?