Book Seven of the Code of Maimonides deals with laws concerning agriculture: the planting and harvesting of crops; the offerings and tithes to be set aside for the priests and the Levites; the portions to be left standing for the poor; the Sabbatical year, when planting is forbidden and monetary debts are canceled; and the Jubilee year, when land ...
The fourth book of Maimonides' Code is entitled Sefer Nasim, 'Book of Women, ' and its subject matter corresponds to what is called today family law. In choosing this term, Maimonides followed the Mishnah, where the title Nasim is applied to the Order which deals with family law.
Book Eleven of 'The Code Of Maimonides' and the three following books (already published in this series) form a unit concerned mainly with civil and criminal law--that is, with affairs 'between man and his fellowman'--in contrast to the preceding ten books that are given over, for the most part, to the symbolic and ritual observances of the Law, ...
Book XII the Code of Maimonides bears the name Sefer Kinyan. We have translated it as 'The Book of Acquisition'. However, the Hebrew term Kinyan means not only acquisition but also ownership of property and, further, the rights and obligations stemming from it. It is because of this wider meaning of the term that, in aiming at a systematic ...
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