منحة في ثيقة شرعيّة: ENA NS 21.1

Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture: Jewish Economic and Social Life Seen Through the Legal Documents of the Cairo Geniza" (PhD diss., Princeton University, 2007).

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Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman, "A Partnership Culture: Jewish Economic and Social Life Seen Through the Legal Documents of the Cairo Geniza" (PhD diss., Princeton University, 2007).

[We] say—we, the witnesses who have placed [our] signature
at the bottom of this [doc]ument—that we attested
and confirmed and testified that So-(and-So) b. So-(and-So) [and So-and-So]
b. So-(and-So agreed to) collaborate in a su[gar-]factory
for a number of years. Thus, So-(and-so)
brought out 90 Fusṭāṭ din(ars) from his assets, paying
that to So-(and-So). The two of them contracted the partnership (shirka) such that
whatever it achieves in terms of profit,
one-third therefrom will be for So-(and-So) and So-(and-So) will have
two-thirds. If, God for(bid,) there be a loss,
its ruling will be likewise. We testified—we, directing
the two of them to have free right of disposal in the factory
concerning buying and selling and transacting,
until the last moment of the (terminal) date (of the partnership). If So-(and-So) requests (this) of us,
we will affix our signature to that which we attested
[…] We attested to this in the
first ten-day period of the month of …[… of the year]
1560 (of the Era) of Docu[ments, in Fusṭāṭ Egypt, situated on]
the Nile R[iver …]
They wrote […]
in order that there would be [in his hand a title of right and proof]
S…[…]

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