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 twenty dirhems and ten-seventeenths; and this is the legacy.

“Suppose that a man on his death-bed were to emancipate two slaves; the master himself leaving a son and a daughter. Then one of the two slaves dies, leaving a daughter and property to a greater amount than his price. ” You take two-thirds of his price, and what the other slave has to return (in order to complete his ransom). If the slave die before the master, then the son and the daughter of the latter partake of the heritage, in such proportion, that the son receives as much as the two daughters together. But if the slave die after the master, then you take two-thirds of his value and what is returned by the other slave, and distribute