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 two; each part is one hundred and thirty-three, the completion of it is three hundred and one, and the exception of one-third is ninety-eight, so that the remaining legacy is two hundred and three. For the heirs remain one thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine.

COMPUTATION OF RETURNS.

“A man, in his last illness, marries a wife, paying (a marriage settlement of) one hundred dirhems, besides which he has no property, her dowry being