ثيقة شرعيّة: ENA 4011.73

الوصف

Legal case from 1100. Shemuel b. Natan he-haver - a well known figure in the Jewish court - now appears as a litigant and sues Sittan bt. Yefet, the widow of Abu Nasr the banker for her daughter, Shemuel's late wife and the mother of his children, left after her death. He also sued his mother-in-law for the share of his late wife in her sister's inheritance, which is half her inheritance. He is also suing for half of the house in which his mother in law lives. The court then asks Sittan and she says that her late husband gave her the house in Muslim courts. She also claims to have dedicated the entire sum inherited from her daughter for the burial and for the wailing (the lamenting of the wailing women). Dated Shevat 1411/ February 1100. (Information from Mediterranean Society, V, p. 163, from Goitein's index cards and from OZ. On the back of the document is a continuation of the matter - About 40 dinars her late husband owed Abu Kathir, her in-law (is this Shemuel?)