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family guardianship?; he who is the appointed one is he who is appointed by the men who are the nearest relations (nabâ nazdistână) on account of proximity.
CHAPTER LIX. 1. As to the fifty-eighth question and reply, that which you ask is thus: For how much property is it then necessary to appoint an adopted son ?
2. The reply is this, that when the property which has remained his for whom it is necessary to appoint an adopted son is as much as sixty stirs of income, it is then indispensable to appoint an adopted son for him. 3. Even when it is less they should recognise him whose adoption is needful, and who conducts an adopted son's duty; and, similarly, an adoption is to be appointed for him, though it may not come as a possession unto him who is fittest for adoption.
CHAPTER LX 1. As to the fifty-ninth question and reply, that which you ask is thus : What is the sin owing to not appointing an adopted son ?
2. The reply is this, that for the man himself it is allowable when he gives up all the property in
1 M14 has an existent family guardianship is in the son of him appointed, and a provided one is that when he himself performs the duty in the guardianship;' but the phrase interpolated is hardly grammatical.
* About 84 rūpis (see Chap. LVI, 2).
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