A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
4.3.4 Treatment Little is known of the treatment of slaves in New Kingdom Egypt. Bakir has suggested that royal slaves, war capt ...
The Adoption Papyrus is, however, the clearest act of emancipa- tion.^318 A woman frees three children of her slave by declaring ...
woman, the offspring consequently being his legal heirs. Neverthless, the woman does not seem to have come under the legal contr ...
cases, the male may have resided in his father-in-law’s house; in others, the wife moved in with the husband.^337 A father might ...
“usufruct” of the property acquired jointly by a couple during their marriage, that is, he could dispose of it without the permi ...
5.1.5 Remarriage In several instances, men who have remarried seem to have gone to court in order to regulate matters of inherit ...
to “distance himself ” from his three daughters, that is, to support them.^363 A man may represent or speak for his accused daug ...
married.^368 Allam believes that the man desires to guarantee his sec- ond wife a greater share of his property; he wishes to as ...
might donate land ( ̇nk) from his estates for a variety of reasons, for example, to support a statue cult.^375 Soldiers would re ...
is disputed in the Legal Text of Mes. During the interim, the estate was possibly maintained undivided, being administered by on ...
nected with the land, but it may not have always been the case.^392 A few individual landowners are quite well documented.^393 P ...
perhaps ultimately by the vizier.^401 While the property effectively belonged to the workman, he could not alienate or share it ...
6.3 Inheritance and Transfer inter vivos 6.3.1 According to Janssen and Pestman,^410 a married couple could have three different ...
6.3.3 In the fragmentary text of O. Gardiner 55, a man arranges to give his entire wealth to his family.^419 In the Will of Seni ...
The eldest (?) son was generally expected to bury the parents.^429 In P. Bulaq 10,^430 one party, who wishes to exclude his sibl ...
their daughter, who has acted as a “staffof old age” (for the wife and mother). 6.3.8 Texts occasionally illuminate the mechanis ...
7.1 Sale The basic components of sales documents are the transfer of the object, the reception of the price, and the guarantee a ...
in (service of ) the female slave PN, compensation shall be given ring for ring.^449 (Made) before many witnesses.”^450 Of some ...
connection with a sale transaction or by the loser of a court case concerning a donkey.^458 7.1.4 Sale receipts may be represent ...
to reimburse the craftsman for his labor.^469 In O. Gardiner 137, two policemen take an oath that they will repay a grain debt o ...
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