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Legal document T-S 13J21.31
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    Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).
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    • Doc. #112, pp. 411
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    S. D. Goitein, index cards.
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    S. D. Goitein, unpublished editions.
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Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).
Moshe Gil, Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza (Leiden: Brill, 1976).

…. (that nobody should)

  1. excuse himself from paying the rent every
  2. month, whatever his circumstances might be, even if, just as
  3. he begs and receives alms for his food, he should receive alms
  4. to pay the rent with them. We have also proclaimed the ban
  5. in the Name (of God) against whoever lives in a compound or in a ṭabaqa
  6. without (paying) the price fixed by three
  7. Jews. So that whenever such a person refuses to pay
  8. the sum imposed on him by the assessors he will be under
  9. the ban. We also proclaimed the ban in the Name (of God)
  10. (10-12) on anybody who refuses to present them or hinders (another), when the deeds of lease in the name of the waqf are requested from him, to do so. We also proclaimed the ban in the Name (of God)
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  13. against whoever tries to evade (payment) or asks for the mediation of some
  14. Gentile concerning his lodging in the waqf or
  15. the reduction of his rent as assessed
  16. against him. Whoever would transgress these
  17. bans would himself be the loser. He would verily
  18. bring danger upon himself and his properties. Since this
  19. ban (is of such a nature that) as soon as a person contravenes it …. 

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