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 capital, equal to eight shares and three-fifths, plus two dirhems and seven twentieths. Complete your capital, by adding to that which you have fifty-nine one-hundred-and-eighty-one parts. Let, then, a share be three hundred and sixty-two, and a dirhem likewise three hundred and sixty-two. The whole capital is then five thousand two hundred and fifty-six, and the legacy out of one-fourth is one thousand two hundred and four, and that out of one-third is four hundred and ninety-nine, and the one-eighth is six hundred and fifty-seven.

On Completement. “A woman dies and leaves eight daughters, a mother, and her husband, and bequeaths to some person as much as must be added to the share of a daughter to make it equal to one-fifth of the capital; and to another person as much as must be added to the share of the mother to make it equal to one-fourth of