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| 18 | 138 | These properties include, of View more quotes about course">course, his livestock, if any, which category includes slaves. |
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| 18 | 135 | There are many variations on this sort of thing. |
| 18 | 136 | For example, it is not unknown for one fellow, desiring the slave of another, to advance his fellow money, perhaps for gambling, in the hope that he may not be able to pay it back, in which case the creditor, in accord with the contractual arrangements, may claim the slave. |
| 18 | 137 | Also, of course, it is not unusual, in serious cases, for a debtor's properties to be seized and auctioned, that his debts may be satisfied. |
| 18 | 138 | These properties include, of course, his livestock, if any, which category includes slaves. |
| 18 | 139 | Daughters, too, in some cities, are subject to such seizure and sale. |
| 18 | 140 | Also, a female debtor, in many cities, is subject to judicial enslavement, she then coming rightlessly and categorically, identically with any other slave, into the ownership of the creditor. |
| 18 | 141 | "Shall I tell him that two guardsmen are asking after him?" asked the fellow. |