Legal document: AIU VII.D.47

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Legal document dated 8 October 1801 CE (1 Heshvan 5562 AM), from Cairo involving the brothers Yiṣḥaq and Mordekhay Bialobos. The younger will receive 20% and the elder 80% of some sort of revenue, at least until the younger brother marries. The elder brother is to support him financially, and the younger brother is to respect the elder as a father. The revenue source is explained in lines 4-5 as: "בריוח הבא להם עם הבת/הכת של המורדיין לחלקו ביניהם". The term "המורדיין" may be a compound word/honorific for a revered rabbi in the community (מור[ינו] + דיין) but an exact name is not given by the scribe. Similarly, this part of the document is unclear because the scribe's mention of "הבת של המורדיין" does not clarify who "the daughter" in question may have been. The scribe's rendering of "הבת" is ambiguous enough that "הכת" may have been intended, which translates instead as the legal "party/side of the mor-dayyan." MCD.