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 ANCIENT LAWYERS A list of things supplied to the crew of a boat. The record of the payment of a fee. Record of payment of tithes, first year of Cambyses. A chattel mortgage on a door to secure the loan of one mana of silver. Concerning the dowry of (Miss) Kibitum Kisat. A sale of land by one brother to another, 3130 B.C. A money judgment for a debt by a Babylon court. Satisfaction of a mortgage by a swap of land. An account of the litigation in which (Mrs.) Bunanitu won her husband's estate from his brother after long contention. A tablet showing the purchase and con veyance to a man and his wife, jointly, of seven canes, five cubits and eighteen fingers of land situated in Borsippa, for eleven and one-third manas of silver, including the house. A declaration of a right of way in favor of another. An acknowledgment of the payment of the first instalment of interest on a mortgage. A summons in an action of debt for the non-payment of price of slave. An award of one mana of silver for killing the servant of another. Deed of partnership between Sininana and Iribamsin, 3400 b.c. A bequest by a son to his father. A renunciation by a father of his minor son, accompanied by the adoption of the son by another man. A declaration of trust by Sini concerning certain property bought and held by him, 3120 B.C. Record of .a loan made for the purpose of paying the interest on another outstanding loan. An apprenticing by Nubta of Attan to Beledir for five years. A deed, in sixth year of Cyrus, of real estate in the ward of Suanna in the city of

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Babylon, giving dimension and abutting owners, signed by seller and witnesses. An order for straw for workmen on canal. A tablet concerning the rations of workingmen. An order on another for five manas of iron, for work done. A power of attorney from one brother to another to sell a quantity of grain. A lease of a house by the agent, of a woman, she being the owner. Slave having been sold when title was in dispute, the tablet shows the matter now all settled, the title perfect, and the money paid. A loan of field produce in the third year of Xerxes. A list of tenants who had paid their rent. A written cancellation and withdrawal of a right of way theretofore granted. An income mortgage of revenues of a temple. Instructions from Bullut to an agent to loan some produce to another. A quitclaim deed by a woman and her husband of certain portions of their revenue. A receipt by a joint owner for his part of the produce. The defeat of a lady in a litigation in which she sought to acquire her brother's property. A renting of slaves for work. An agreement to deliver a certain quan tity of coined silver ("stamped for giving and receiving"). I will further continue this narrative by telling something of the firm of Murashu's Sons. It seems that old Mr. Murashu, of Nippur, was a banker, and broker, and real estate agent, collector of taxes, a sort of county treasurer, so to speak, in Nippur, and in all probability considerable of a lawyer. He carried on business for a num ber of years, and on his death the firm name was changed to Murashu's Sons, and con tinued under this name for about seventy years. One of the sons died, and an uncle came into the firm, but the name of the