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 Computation: Call the legacy to each of them thing; the ransom of each will be three hundred less thing; then take the inheritance of the deceased slave, which is five hundred dirhems, and subtract his ransom, which is three hundred less thing; the remainder of his inheritance will be two hundred plus thing. Of this, one hundred dirhems and half a thing return to the master by the law of succession, so that now altogether four hundred dirhems less a half thing are in the hands of the master’s heirs. Take also the ransom of the other slave, namely, three hundred dirhems less thing; then the heirs of the master obtain seven hundred dir-