Thursday, March 26, 2009

Bava Kamma 88 - Payment for the Humiliation of a Canaanite Slave (Torts)

One who wounds a Canaanite slave of others is liable to all five categories of payment; Rabbi Yehudah says that "a man and his brother" excludes a slave from humiliation payment. And the Rabbis? The slave IS your brother in (some) commandments. Then, can the slave testify in court? No, since the slave is similar to a woman and a minor, who also observe some commandments yet can't testify in court.

A wife can bequeath her possessions to her son, out of the husband's reach. However, in Usha, it was enacted that the husband gets back the usufruct property bequeathed or sold by his wife.

Art: Friends at the Theater, Ludovic Halevy and Albert Cave by Edgar Degas

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