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 namely, one hundred and twenty. This is the legacy (to the slave,) and the ransom is one hundred and eighty.

“Some person on his sick-bed has emancipated a slave, whose price is three hundred dirhems; the slave then dies, leaving four hundred dirhems and ten dirhems of debt, and two daughters, and bequeathing to a person one-third of his capital; the master has twenty dirhems debts.” The computation of this case is the following: Call the legacy to the slave thing; his ransom is the remainder of his price, namely, three hundred less thing. But the slave, when dying, left four hundred dirhems; and out of this sum, his ransom, namely, three hundred less thing, is paid to the