A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
status and exercising official functions, may often have been sup- ported by usufruct of state- or temple-owned property.^239 Th ...
lesser individuals might also possess land and estates, which, while perhaps fundamentally belonging to the state or temple (a u ...
6.1.3 The king also endowed land and priests specifically for his cult. In Coptos G, for example, the king gives land for the su ...
go to court with his colleagues.^271 The priestly phylai had precedence over the individual, and could assume control over the p ...
However, he sets conditions on his gift; namely that they cannot give the property away, or sell it to a stranger.^279 The only ...
that official gives his oldest son a section of his tomb for his burial and permission to receive funerary offerings from his ow ...
C The term ¢tmis used for “contract” (lit. “what has been sealed”).^296 7.1 Sale and Transfer Documents Despite the ra ...
7.1.1 There is a possible sale transaction or exchange of land already between Metjen and the nswtyw, literally, “the-ones-of-th ...
7.1.3 A rare representation of a sale transaction is in the tomb of ›nmw- ̇tp and Nj-'n¢-flnmwin Saqqara, with the text “cubits ...
7.3 Hire If none of one’s own children were suitable as mortuary priests, or other persons from the household were not available ...
8.4 Punishment Among the penalties in the exemption decrees of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate period are the family’ ...
S I 9.1 Curses In addition to secular penalties, curses play a role in Old Kingdom legalistic texts,^333 for ...
questions why indeed should one do that if the ancestors do not help the living in their turn. In this case, it is the daughter ...
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