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two; each part is one hundred and thirty-three, the completion of it is three hundred and one, and the exception of one-third is ninety-eight, so that the remaining legacy is two hundred and three. For the heirs remain one thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine.
COMPUTATION OF RETURNS.[1]
On Marriage in Illness.
“A man, in his last illness, marries a wife, paying (a marriage settlement of) one hundred dirhems, besides which he has no property, her dowry being
- ↑ The solutions which the author has given of the remaining problems of this treatise, are, mathematically considered, for the most part incorrect. It is not that the problems, when once reduced into equations, are incorrectly worked out; but that in reducing them to equations, arbitrary assumptions are made, which are foreign or contradictory to the data first enounced, for the purpose, it should seem, of forcing the solutions to accord with the established rules of inheritance, as expounded by Arabian lawyers.The object of the lawyers in their interpretations, and of the author in his solutions, seems to have been, to favour heirs and next of kin; by limiting the power of a testator, during illness, to bequeath property, or to emancipate slaves; and by requiring payment of heavy ransom for slaves whom a testator might, during illness, have directed to be emancipated.
