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 nine dirhems and one-eleventh. This is the legacy. The deduction is one hundred and ninety dirhems and ten-elevenths. According to Abu Hanifah, you call the thing a legacy, and what is obtained on account of the dowry is likewise a legacy.

If the case be the same, but that the donor, having cohabited with her, has bequeathed one-third of his capital, then Abu Hanifah says, that the one-third is halved between the donee and the legatee. Computation: Call the legacy of the person to whom the slave-girl has been given, thing. After the deduction of it, there remain three hundred, less thing. Then take the dowry, which is one-third of thing; so that the donor retains three hundred less one and one-third of thing: the donee’s legacy being, according to Abu Hanifah, one and one-third of thing; according to other lawyers, only thing. The legatee, to whom one-third is bequeathed, receives as much as the legacy of the donee, namely, one and one-third of thing. The donor thus retains three hundred, less two things and