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Interestingly, the court merely forbids future use of sacred objects of collateral, but does not enjoin the congregation officers to restore or place the sacred objects already taken. The court puts "under the ban" anyone who violates the decree in the future; in this context, such a ban is akin to excommunication, and would have put a violator outside the protection of the community. […]
(Information from David Werner Amram's article "An Injunction of a Jewish- Egyptian Court of the Thirteenth Century" from the July 1901 issue of The Green Bag legal magazine, which also includes a full translation by Professor Richard Gottheil of Columbia University, as well as further analysis)
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