Legal document: Bodl. MS heb. a 3/16

Legal document Bodl. MS heb. a 3/16

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Bodl. MS heb. a 3/16
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Arabic

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Legal query in Arabic script. The case is that of two brothers who inherit 3.5 shares in a property from their third brother, but upon selling their shares, they learn that the deceased brother had already sold 1 share in the property, so that each brother owned 0.5 less share than he thought he did. The case is potentially connected to the document on the recto (PGPID 5335), a partnership agreement between two brothers, Abū al-Faḍl and Abū al-Riḍā Yosef b. Berakhot, who have inherited a sugar factory from their father and purchased the remainder from their brothers. The partnership agreement also references "Arabic documents" that allegedly detail the nature of the inheritance/purchase, as well as the dimensions of the property.

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Bodleian Library
Historical shelfmarks
Bodl. MS Heb. a 3 (Cat. 2873), fol. 16; Bodl. MS Heb. a 3, f. 16
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In PGP since 2024
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Bodl. MS heb. a 3/16 16 verso

16 verso
Alan Elbaum, [digital geniza document edition] (n.p., 2024).
  1. ما يقول السادة الفقها وفقهم الله تعالى لما يرضيه
  2. في شخص مات وخلف حصة مبلغها ثلثة اسهام ونصف سهم وكان له من الورثة اخين
  3. اقتسم كل منهم سهم //واحد// ونصف وربع سهم واباع كل منهم قسمته المذكورة وما اخدهم(؟)
  4. وبعد ذلك بمدة ظهر على الاخ الاصلي انه كان اباع من حصته الذي //كانت له// [[خلفها]] اعني
  5. الثلثة اسهام ونصف سهم واحد وصا لكل واحد قيراط وربع واباع اكثر ما بحصتـ[ـه
  6. نصف قيراط هل البيع صحيح ويلزمهم تخريج(؟) كل منهم للمشتري نصف قيرط [او فسخ
  7. البيع من الاصل وان كان مفسوخ هل يلزم المشتري يرد للبائع [اجرة؟]
  8. السنين الذي اقام في ملكه ام لا اقتونا يرحكمكم(!) الله
Alan Elbaum, [digital geniza document edition] (n.p., 2024).
  1. What do the master jurisprudents say, may God grant them success in what will please Him,
  2. regarding a man who died and left a property amounting to 3.5 shares. His heirs were his two brothers,
  3. who each received 1.75 shares and who each sold his respective share rather than take possession of them(?).
  4. Some time after this, it came out that the original [deceased] brother had [already] sold one share out of the property that he [[left]] had, i.e.,
  5. the 3.5 shares, and [in fact] he willed to each one [of the brothers] 1.25 qirats (= shares). Thus [each of the brothers] sold a half qirat more than he actually possessed.
  6. Is the sale valid, and are they each obligated to [recover?] the half qirat from the buyer? [Or was] the sale [invalid]
  7. from the beginning? If it was invalid, must the buyer pay the seller the [rent for the?]
  8. years during which he lived in his possession, or not? Grant us a ruling, may God have mercy upon you.

Bodl. MS heb. a 3/16 16 recto

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Bodleian Library, Bodl. MS heb. a 3/16. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/39482/, accessed January 4, 2025.
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