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removing an ox that steals hay, danger from illomened speaking, a father's sin owing to his child's misbehaviour; (8 60) gathering medicinal herbs, feasting with idolators, atonement for starving, ordeals, religious secrets, evil-speaking to others' wives, extent
of communities, habits of Frashostar and Gamasp . 121 39. Hakîdakânistân section of the same: sequestration of
property, sheep, horses, cattle, and their young, milk, and wool; their shelter and ill-treatment; ($ II) handing over sheep to the sequestrator and his responsibility, a free sheep among those seized, the killing of a seized sheep, particulars of a seized animal to be stated when it is kept with others, care of a man wounded in slaughtering, gain of a sequestrator of animals in various circumstances; ($ 17) treasure found in various places and at various depths of earth and water; ($ 24) nourishing a seized sheep, disputes as to its identity, keeping it in the mountains,
and other details . . . . . . . 131 40. Ziyånakistan section of the same : duty of protecting
animate and inanimate existences, and sin of injuring them; a damaged gift or animal, inanimate property and its increase, merit of not rejecting a damaged
article . . . . . . . . . 136 41. Vakhshistân, one of the last 22 sections of the same:
atonement, compensation, active and existent increase, increase upon increases, righteous gifts, interest simple and compound, how loans are treated on the death of lender or debtor; ($ 10) retribution, penalty for inefficient breeding of animals, animals' milk and hair, males preferable to females, an injured camel, improved dog or pig, buying up supplies too much; ($ 20) giving away necessary clothing, penalty for deprival of food, litigation about debts, unauthorised supplies, multiplication of sheep and other details, loans and repayment by instalments, seizure of slaves to work off a debt; ( 30) seizure of a cloak or a water-skin, increase of grains and sheep, seizure of clothes and implements, produce of land and ornaments . . . . . . . . . 138
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