Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Choshen Mishpat

by Yosef Karo

Judges

• 1: Appointing judges in the Land of Israel and in other places
• 2: A Court May Strike and Punish for a Temporary Need
• 3: How Many Judges Are Needed In Order to Judge
• 4: How a Person Can Self-Judge
• 5: The Time And Day One Can Judge
• 6: The Required Amount of Money For a Case
• 7: Those who are eligible for judgeship and those who are not, whether in general or for specific cases appearing before the court
• 8: Not to Appoint An Unfit Judge and the Great Reward and Punishment of a Judge
• 9: Not to Take a Bribe and the Right to Accept Payment for Being Idle
• 10: One Should Be Patient in Judgement and Consult With Those Greater Than Him
• 11: How We Call Someone to Court and Based on Whose Words
• 12: A Judge Who Faces an Easygoing and Tough Party and All the Rules of Pshara
• 13: How We Choose Judges If the Parties Cannot Agree
• 14: Where One of the Parties Says Let’s Go to the Beis Din Hagadol and the Rules of a Party That Demands an Explanation for the Ruling
• 15: Which Case is Judged First and the Rules of a Dishonest Case
• 16: How Much Time Do We Provide to Bring Proof and the Rules of Placing a Cherem
• 17: One Must Treat All Parties Equally
• 18: How We Give and Take on a Matter and This That We Follow the Majority
• 19: How We Deliver the Ruling and The Method of Writing It
• 20: How Much Time Does a Party Have to Bring Proof to Void a Ruling
• 21: One Who Accepted to Complete the Ruling By a Certain Date But an Accident Occurred
• 22: One Who Accepts a Relative or Someone Disqualified and the Rules of a Flipped Oath
• 23: Up to What Point is a Judge Believed to Say Which Party He Sided With
• 24: We Assist the Plaintiff First
• 25: When a Judge Who Erred Can Retract and When He Must Pay
• 26: Not to Be Judged in Secular Courts
• 27: Not to Curse a Judge or Any Other Jew

Witnesses

• 28: How To Caution the Witnesses and We Do Not Accept Testimony in the Absence of a Litigant
• 29: Witnesses May Not Retract
• 30: Witnesses On Monetary Matters Do Not Require an Interrogation and the Testimony Must Be Complete
• 31: The Laws of Numerous Sets of Witnesses
• 32: Witnesses Who Witnessed a Confession Must Relate the Words As Is and a Case Where a Party Says He Was Kidding
• 33: Disqualified Testimony Due To Familial Relationship or a Woman or Slave
• 34: Witnesses Disqualified Due to Sin
• 35: The Disqualification of the Blind, Deaf, Foolish and Minors
• 36: Many Testified and One Was Discovered To Be a Relative or Disqualified
• 37: Disqualification Due To a Potential Benefit
• 38: Some of the Laws of Impeachment

Loans

• 39: Writing a document for the borrower without the lender, and on which admissions we write
• 40: The Laws of One Who Obligates Himself to Another
• 41: The Laws of One Who Lost His Loan Document or Had It Erased
• 42: One Can Write a Document In Any Language and the Laws of an Unspecified Coin
• 43: The Date Must be Written in a Document and the Specific Laws of Postdating and Predating
• 44: The Rules of Summarizing the Document On the Last Line and How We Verify Erased and Hanging Letters
• 45: This That Witnesses Must First Read the Document and the Laws of A Document on Paper and the Witnesses on Erased Paper
• 46: Witnesses That Said We Were Minors or We Were Disqualified or the Document Was Given on Trust and All the Laws of Verifying Documents
• 47: One Who Claims the Document Was Given On Trust or Was Paid Back
• 48: This That We Write the Outline of Documents
• 49: The Witnesses Must Be Familiar With The Names of the Borrower and Lender and the Laws of Errors In Names and Calculations
• 50: A Document That Says “I Borrowed a Maneh From You”
• 51: A Document With Only One Witness or One Disqualified Witness
• 52: A Document That Contains Interest or a Ripped Document
• 53: Not To Modify the Document
• 54: The Laws of Asmachata, Whether We Write a Receipt and How We Write a Receipt
• 55: The Laws of One Who Paid Back a Portion of His Debt and One Who Gives His Document to a Third Party
• 56: Laws of a Third Party
• 57: The Law That One Is Prohibited From Retaining a Repaid Document
• 58: One Who Produces a Loan Document Against His Adversary
• 59: A Verified Document Where the Borrower Claims It Has Been Repaid and the Lender Says He Does Not Know
• 60: The Laws of a Lien on Movable Items Via Real Property and the Laws of a Lien On an Item That Has Not Yet Come Into Existence
• 61: Various Laws Regarding Documents
• 62: The Laws of a Woman Who Transacts In the Home
• 63: One Who Is Testified Against As Having Sought a Forger
• 64: A Custodian Who Wants to Retain Deposited Documents As Payment For His Debt
• 65: The Law of Found Documents and the Law of a Receipt Found in the Possession of a Third Party
• 66: The Laws of the Sale of Documents and Exploitation on Them
• 67: The Laws of Shmittah and Pruzbul
• 68: The Laws of Documents Made in Secular Courts
• 69: The Laws of One Who Produces Verified or Unverified Handwriting and the Laws of One Who Claimed He Paid Back or Partially Confessed
• 70: The Laws of an Oral Loan and If One Says to Only Pay Me Back In Front of Witnesses
• 71: If a Borrower Granted Believability to a Lender To What Extent Would the Believability Take Effect
• 72: One Who Lends on Collateral and Many of the Laws of Collateral
• 73: The Default Timeframe of a Loan and Some Specific Laws Regarding Loans
• 74: What Place is Designated For a Lender to Collect and the Process of Repayment

Plaintiff and Defendant

• 75: Whether the Lender and Borrower Need to Clarify Their Claims, All the Laws of One Who Is Obligated a Biblical or Rabbinical Oath, One Who is Unable to Swear and Any Case Where the Plaintiff or Defendant Claim a Certain or Uncertain Claim
• 76: If One Orally Borrowed 100 From One and 200 From Another and Each One is Claiming 200
• 77: The Laws of Two Parties That Borrowed and the Law of One Partner That Borrows Solo
• 78: One Who Claims He Paid Back Within the Time of the Loan
• 79: The Law of One Who Says I Did Not Borrow and the Distinction Between “Go Give to Him” and “You Are Obligated to Give to Him”
• 80: In What Situation Can One Claim and Re-Claim
• 81: When a Party That Confessed is Able to Say I Was Kidding
• 82: The Law of an Unverified Document or a Verified Document Where the Borrower Claims the Document Was Given On Trust, Was Paid Back or Was Interest
• 83: The Law of a Lender Who Admits That the Document Is a Forgery
• 84: One Who Impairs or Minimizes His Document or a Solo Witness Testifies That it Has Been Repaid
• 85: If One Produces a Loan Document and the Other Claims That the Plaintiff Sold the Defendant His Field
• 86: If Reuven Owed Shimon and Shimon Owed Levi, We Would Take From Levi and Give to Reuven
• 87: The Laws of a Heses Oath and a Biblical Oath
• 88: The Laws of Denial and Confession and the Principle That the Confession Must Be the Same Form as the Claim
• 89: This That the Hired Worker Swears and Collects
• 90: Victims (e.g., victims of theft and assault) Swear and Collect and the Laws of One Who Bring Vessels From the Home of a Homeowner and Says They Are Borrowed
• 91: A Storekeeper Swears and Collects and the Laws of Ledgers
• 92: The Laws of One Who is Suspect With Respect to Oaths
• 93: The Laws of an Uncertain Oath and the Partner-Oath
• 94: The Laws of a Rolled-In Oath
• 95: The Laws of Which Oath Would be Taken on Real Property and the Laws of Hekdesh Today
• 96: What Oaths a Mute, Fool and Minor Swear, As Well As a Married Woman

Debt Collection

• 97: To Lend to a Poor Person and Not to Pressure Him, the Returning of Collateral and the Laws of Leaving Possessions For the Borrower
• 98: The Order of Collecting the Debt and One Who Requests Time to Invalidate His Document and Does Not Arrive On Time
• 99: How We Have the Borrower Swear As To Whether He Has Any Property, We Place a Cherem On Someone Who Knows The Borrower Has Property, If The Borrower Is Valid or a Fraudster and If He Gave Away His Property As a Gift
• 100: How Much Time We Give To One Who Seeks a Date For Repayment and If The Party Does Not Arrive At the Date and One Who Refuses to Comply With the Court’s Instructions
• 101: We Collect Money or Moveable Items For a Creditor, If the Borrower Claims His Money Belongs to Gentiles and If The Borrower Has Debts to Gentiles
• 102: From What Real Property Do We Collect the Debt For the Creditor
• 103: The Appraisal of the Borrower’s Real Property, If They Erred In the Appraisal and The Appraisal Can Always Revert
• 104: The Laws of a Later Creditor Who Prematurely Collects Real Property or Moveable Items and the Law That an Earlier Oral Loan Has Precedence Over a Documented Loan
• 105: The Law of One Who Takes Possession On Behalf of a Creditor In a Situation Where It Negatively Impacts Others and a Guardian Who Takes Possession of the Deposit On Behalf of a Creditor
• 106: The Laws of One Who Comes To Collect Outside the Presence of His Debtor

Debt Collection From Orphans

• 107: We Force Orphans to Pay Their Father’s Debts
• 108: In What Context Is a Loan Collected From Inheritors and What Oath Can a Person Bequeath to His Children
• 109: We Make an Announcement On Orphans' Properties
• 110: We Do Not Act For Minor-Properties

Debt Collection From Sold Properties

• 111: The Law That a Documented Loan Can Be Collected From Sold Properties and the Law of the Oral Loan
• 112: A Creditor Cannot Seize Properties of Third Parties That the Borrower Acquired After the Loan
• 113: A Creditor Cannot Seize Mortgaged Moveable Items
• 114: The Law of Whether a Purchaser Can Push the Creditor to the Borrower
• 115: The Laws of Fruits and Appreciation on Property Seized From Purchasers and Orphans
• 116: How We Write the Seizure Document

Designated Collections

• 117: The Law of One Who Designates His Field or Slave For Collection
• 118: One Who Writes to the Second Purchaser That He Has No Claim Against Him
• 119: One Who Sells All His Fields and a Borrower Who Made a Condition that the Lender Will Collect From Superior Properties
• 120: One Who Throws Payment For His Debt Without Specification or With The Rules of Gittin and It Was Misplaced

Appointed Debt-Collector

• 121: One Who Sends Payment For His Debt Via a Messenger

Power of Attorney

• 122: If the Lender Dies or Voided the Messengership or Power of Attorney
• 123: What a Power of Attorney Is Written On and How It is Written
• 124: Whether a Defendant Can Grant Power of Attorney
• 125: One Who Sends his Debt or Deposit Via a Messenger
• 126: One Who Pays Back His Debt in the Presence of All Three Parties
• 127: The Laws of a Man Who Borrowed From His Wife and Divorced Her or From His Slave and Freed Him and One Who Borrows From a Convert
• 128: The Law of One Who Pays Another’s Debt or Who Takes Collateral On Behalf of Another

Cosigning

• 129: The Laws of a Cosigner On a Documented or Oral Loan and When We Collect From the Cosigner
• 130: The Laws of How a Cosigner Who Paid the Lender Would Collect From the Borrower
• 131: One Who Retracts After Agreeing to Cosign
• 132: A Slave, Woman or Minor That Cosigned and Two That Cosigned For One and One That Cosigned For Two

Ownership Presumption on Movable Items

• 133: One Who Has Possession of Movable Items Known to Others
• 134: A Craftsman Who Makes a Claim That He Purchased an Item of His Trade From Its Owner
• 135: The Laws of One Who Takes Possession of Living Creatures, Such As Animals and Slaves
• 136: One Whose Items Were Swapped At A House of Mourning or Feasting
• 137: One Who Plucks Another’s Fruits
• 138: The Law of Two Individuals Grasping An Item of Clothing and Its Division
• 139: The Law of Two Parties In Dispute Over an Item and a Third Party Grabbed It

Ownership Presumption on Real Property

• 140: The Law of One Who Takes Possession of Another’s Real Property and the Law of A Presumption of Ownership on Homes and Stores
• 141: The Laws of Obtaining a Presumption On Rain-Watered Fields and Fields of Trees
• 142: The Law Where the Objector Assists the Possessor in His Possession and if the Assistance Was in Error
• 143: The Law of One Who Takes Possession Outside the Presence of the Objector Who Is In Another Country or Who Has Fled
• 144: Two People That Took Possession of One Field and Each One Consumed
• 145: If the Possessor Brought Two Witnesses and Their Testimony Did Not Conform
• 146: An Objection Will Void a Presumption and With What Language, How and When Is the Objection Made
• 147: One Who Objects to Possession of a Field and He is a Judge or Witness
• 148: One Who Lost a Path To His Field
• 149: The Following Cannot Obtain a Presumption of Ownership: Partners, Sharecroppers, Guardians, Thieves, Brothers, Deaf-Mutes and Minors
• 150: One Who Went Down to a Field As Collateral and Subsequently Created a Sale Document
• 151: The Laws of Those Whose Consumption Does Not Qualify as Proof
• 152: The Law of When Those Who Cannot Obtain a Presumption Can Ultimately Obtain a Presumption

Neighbor-Damage

• 153: The Laws of Setting Up a Protrusion or Tube, Placing a Ladder and Erecting Beams
• 154: Obtaining Rights on Windows and Entrances and How Far One Must Distance From Them
• 155: The Laws of Distancing From Damage
• 156: The Laws of One Who Goes Into Another’s Profession and One Who Brings Merchandise to Another City

Real-Property Partners

• 157: How a Wall Should Be Built When Two People That Are Partners in a Courtyard Come to Divide
• 158: How Partners Build a Fence Where They Divided a Garden or Valley
• 159: Damage-by-Sight From One Roof to Another and How it Can be Removed
• 160: A Roof That is Adjacent to a Courtyard and Two Courtyards Where One is Higher Than the Other
• 161: Matters That Residents of a Courtyard Can Compel Each Other On
• 162: Matters That Residents of an Alleyway Can Compel Each Other On
• 163: Matters That Residents of a City Can Compel Each Other On
• 164: What Each Party is Required to Repair When a House and Upper Story Belong to Two People
• 165: One Who Has a Garden Under Another’s Olive Press
• 166: One Whose Wall Fell Into Another’s Garden
• 167: Two Gardens, Where One Was Higher Than the Other
• 168: If a River Swept Away Olives and One Who Sells Olives For Wood
• 169: One Who Has a Pit Within Another’s Pit or a Garden Within Another’s Garden
• 170: Gardens That Are Supplied by One Spring

Partnership Division

• 171: On What Matters Partners Can Compel each Other To Divide and the Specifics of Those Laws
• 172: How We Give Four Amos to a House or Courtyard and the Laws of Fertilizer and Soldiers in a Courtyard
• 173: Partners or Brothers That Want to Divide Property That Does Not Have the Status of Intended to be Divided, the Division of Books and that Neither Can Obtain a Presumption Against the Other
• 174: Brothers, Partners or a Firstborn That Come to Divide

Neighbor's Right of First Refusal

• 175: Brothers That Want to Divide and The Laws of a Neighbor

Partners

• 176: How a Partnership Is Set Up, How it Operates and How They Separate and if One of them Dies
• 177: Where One Partner Went Down to Work as a Craftsman for the King or Got Sick
• 178: A Partner That Requests a Waiver from the Tax Collector
• 179: Partners Cannot Obtain a Presumption Against Each Other
• 180: Partners in a Courtyard Who Swore Off Benefit to Each Other
• 181: A Caravan Attacked by Thieves Where One of the Members Rescued

Agents

• 182: How a Person Becomes an Agent, a Case Where the Agent Erred and Purchased at a Premium or Violated the Wishes of the Sender
• 183: If One Appointed an Agent to Purchase Wheat For Him and He Purchased Barley For Him
• 184: One Who Purchases a Field in Another’s Name and Subsequently Says It Was For Himself and the Laws of an Agent That Was Appointed by Three Individuals Together
• 185: A Broker Who Sold For More or Less Than the Owner Told Him to and Other Claims Between a Broker and Owner
• 186: One Who Purchase Vessels from the Craftsman to Sell
• 187: The Law of an Agent Who Claims He Suffered an Unavoidable Accident
• 188: There is No Agency for a Gentile and There is Agency for a Slave and Woman

Commerce

• 189: The Law That a Sale Cannot be Completed With Words
• 190: The Law of Acquiring Real Property With Money
• 191: The Laws of Acquiring Real Property With a Document
• 192: The Laws of Acquiring Real Property by Taking Possession
• 193: Something That is Attached to the Ground Has the Status of the Ground
• 194: A Gentile Who Sold Real Property to a Jew and Received Money But Did Not Write a Document
• 195: The Laws of Acquiring Real Property or Movable Items With a Swap
• 196: The Laws of Acquiring A Gentile-Slave
• 197: The Laws of Acquiring a Large Domesticated Animal and a Small Domesticated Animal
• 198: The Laws of Acquiring Movable Items, What is Acquired Via Pulling and What is Acquired Via Handing Over, and What the Law is Regarding the Money in his Hand
• 199: There Are Ways That Money Would Acquire and There is a Time Where Money Would Acquire
• 200: The Laws of Acquiring Movable Items Via One’s Courtyard and How One’s Vessels Can Acquire
• 201: The Laws of One Who Makes an Impression on a Barrel and One Who Shakes Hands With Another
• 202: The Laws of Acquiring Movable Items Via Real Property, Slaves and Real Property Together, Slaves and Movable Items Together or an Animal and the Vessels On It
• 203: All Movable Items Can Be Acquired Via Swap and a Coin Cannot Be Acquired Via Swap
• 204: When One Who Retracts Accepts the “Mi Shepara” Curse and When He is Considered Lacking Trustworthiness
• 205: The Laws of One Who Sells Because of Duress and Provides a Declaration and Voids the Sale
• 206: The Law of One Who Says “When I Sell, I Will Sell to You,” and He Sold to Another for More or if He Said I Will Sell to You for the Amount Appraised by the Court
• 207: One Who Sells his Properties Conditionally, the Laws of Asmachta, and One Who Obligates Himself to Do Something he is Not Required to Do
• 208: A Sale With an Element of Illegality
• 209: One Who Transfers an Undefined Item or Something Not Yet in Existence
• 210: One Who Transfers Possession to His Fetus or Another’s Fetus
• 211: The Law of an Item Not in One’s Possession and One Who Writes his Properties to his Children For After his Death
• 212: The Law of One Who Transfer Rights to Live in a Home or Courtyard, or Consecrates an Item that is Not Yet in Existence
• 213: What Methods Can be Used to Acquire the Fruits of a Beehive and the Fruits of a Birds-Nest
• 214: What is Sold Along With a House in a Default Sale
• 215: What is Included in the Sale Where One Sells a Courtyard, an Olive Press or a City
• 216: One Who Sells a Field and Says, “Except For Such and Such Palm Tree,” “Except For the Trees” or “Except For This Land” or “These Trees” and How One Should Write a Sale Document to Prevent Objectors
• 217: If One Sells a Water Channel, a Private Path, a Public Path or a Location For Burial
• 218: One Who Sells a Kur of Dirt That Has Rocks and Valleys
• 219: How We Define Borders and In the Event Borders Are Not Defined
• 220: One Who Sells a Boat, Flagpole, Cattle-Wagon, Cow, Donkey or Maidservant
• 221: If a Seller Said 200 and the Buyer Said 100
• 222: Two People Quarreling Over an Item and Other Claims Between Seller and Buyer
• 223: One Who Swaps a Cow and Donkey, and the Cow Gives Birth or One Who Has Two Slaves or Two Fields
• 224: If One Swapped a Cow For a Donkey, or Purchased the Cow, and Discovered a Hole in the Second Stomach
• 225: If One Took Responsibility For Any Unavoidable Accident or Explicitly Conditioned That He Takes No Responsibility
• 226: If One Sells a Field Without a Guarantee or a Rumor of an Objection Emerged

Overcharge & Sales on False Pretenses

• 227: What Amount of Overcharge is Waived or Returned, an Agent That Erred and Brothers That Divided and Erred
• 228: One is Prohibited From Afflicting With Words, Misleading Others and Committing Fraud in Commerce
• 229: How Much Waste a Buyer Must Accept From One Who Sells Him Wheat, Barley or Fruits
• 230: One Who Sells a Wine Cellar to Another and One Who Purchases Wine and the Wine Sours
• 231: Not to Defraud With Measurement or Weight, How One Should Create Them, How One Should Weigh and the Obligation to Appoint Officials to Enforce the Measurements and Weights
• 232: If One Sells Something by Measurement or Weight and Erred, One Who Errs in Counting Money or One Who Sells Something and a Defect is Discovered
• 233: One Who Sells One Species and it Turns Out to be Another Species or One Who Sells as Bad and it Turns Out to be Good
• 234: If One Sells a Forbidden Item and the Buyer Consumed it
• 235: When a Minor, Deaf-Mute, Fool and Drunk Can Sell Movable Items and One Who Acquires on Shabbos and Yom Tov
• 236: A Gentile That Forcibly Stole Real Property From a Jew or With Threatening Words
• 237: If One Goes After Something to Acquire it and Someone Else Acquires it Before Him
• 238: We Write a Document For the Seller, but Not for the Buyer
• 239: How We Write Another Document for One Who Comes and Says I Lost My Acquisition Document
• 240: Two Sale Documents that are Produced on One Field with the Same Date

Gifts

• 241: How a Gift and Waiver Would be Valid and One Who Gifts an Undefined Item
• 242: The Law of a Compelled Gift, the Giving of a Declaration and the Hidden Gift
• 243: The Law of One Who Acquires on Behalf of Another and the Donor or Recipient Wants to Retract
• 244: One Who Tells Two to Write a Gift-Document to So and So
• 245: One Who Writes I Gave Such and Such Field to So and So and One Who Says I Gave Such and Such Field to So and So, and the Recipient Says He Did Not Receive it
• 246: One Who Hears His Son has Died and Writes His Properties Over to Someone Else
• 247: One Who Sends Items to his Family and Does Not Instruct How They Should Divide Them
• 248: One Who Gives a Gift to Another and Says, “And After You, to So and So”
• 249: One Who Gifts a Gift and Retracts or One Who Gifts to a Slave or Woman

Dying-Gift

• 250: The Laws of the Gifts of a Dying Man, Where Some or All of the Properties are Gifted, With or Without a Kinyan
• 251: The Laws of a Dying or Healthy Gift
• 252: We Can Remove a Dying-Gift For Support of the Wife and Daughters
• 253: What Language is Effective for a Dying Individual and One Who Says Give 100 to So and So, 200 to So and So and 300 to So and So
• 254: A Dying Person Who Wants That They Make a Kinyan on his Gifts
• 255: A Dying Person Who Says he has a Maneh in So and So’s Possession or So and So has a Maneh in his Possession
• 256: A Gentile That Converted Who Gave a Dying Gift or Freed a Slave
• 257: One Who Writes his Properties to his Son or Someone Else, Effective Today and After Death, and a Healthy-Gift That had Written, Effective Today and After Death
• 258: A Gift That has a Date and States it is for After Death

Lost & Found

• 259: From What Place One is Required to Return a Lost Item
• 260: One Who Finds an Item that was Clearly Placed There
• 261: The Law of One Who Found Something in a Place Where it is Evident that it was Not Misplaced
• 262: What Items One is Required to Announce and What Items Belong to the One Who Finds it
• 263: If One Finds a Lost Item that he is Embarrassed to Return
• 264: One’s Own Lost Item Takes Precedence Over Another’s and Which of One’s Rabbi’s Lost Item or Father’s Lost Item Takes Precedence
• 265: One May Not Take Payment for a Lost Item
• 266: The Law of the Lost Item of a Sinner
• 267: How One Announces and How One Deals With the Lost Item While is in his Possession
• 268: The Law of Acquiring with One’s Courtyard or Four Amos
• 269: One Who Picks up a Found Item for Another and the Law if a Deaf-Mute or Sane Person Lifted it
• 270: The Found Item of a Deaf-Mute, a Fool or a Minor and the Found Item of One’s Son, Daughter, Slave, Maidservant, Wife and Employee
• 271: A Found Animal, Loan Document, Receipt or Divorce-Document

Unloading, Loading and Travelers

• 272: The Law of Animals or Boats that Encountered Each Other

Ownerless Property and a Convert’s Property

• 273: The Law of One Who Acquires Ownerless Property and How and With How Many Does One Make Something Ownerless
• 274: The Law of One Who Acquires a Field From a Gentile
• 275: The Laws of One Who Takes Possession of the Property of a Gentile Who Converted and Died Without Inheritors

Inheritance

• 276: What is the Order of Inheritance?
• 277: A Firstborn Takes Double, What is a Firstborn With Respect to Inheritance and an Uncertain Firstborn
• 278: A Firstborn Does Not Take Double From Loans or Appreciation and if One Sold his Firstborn Portion
• 279: The Law of One Who Says This is My Son, My Brother Or My Slave, and Then Says the Reverse
• 280: If One Said “This is Our Brother” or One Came and Said “I Am Your Brother”
• 281: One Who Removes Properties from his Sons to Give to One of Them
• 282: Not to Remove Inheritance From One That is Not Fit to Inherit
• 283: The Laws of a Gentile’s Inheritance, and that of a Convert or Jew who is an Idolater
• 284: An Inheritor Does Not Require Testimony that he is Related and he Requires Testimony that the Deceased Died
• 285: What Should be Done With the Properties of a Captive who Fled or One Who Left Willingly
• 286: How Adult and Minor Orphans are Supported From Their Properties
• 287: One Who Dies and Was Survived by Older and Younger Children
• 288: How We Appraise What is On the Sons and Daughters When They Divide
• 289: Where There are Adult and Minor Brothers and They Want to Divide

Guardians

• 290: The Law of Who Should be Appointed as Guardian, How He Should Act and all His Rules

Deposits

• 291: The Law of an Unpaid Watchman, When his Obligation to Watch Begins and How he Watches
• 292: Not to Lay a Hand on a Deposit and if He Did Lay a hand
• 293: When a Deposit Can be Claimed and Whether the Watchman Can Return it to Any Location
• 294: One Who Denies Receiving a Deposit or Claims it was Stolen
• 295: How We Have a Watchman Who Paid Swear
• 296: One Who Deposits With Witnesses and the Watchman Claims it was Stolen or the Deposit Never Occurred
• 297: If One Denies a Deposit, Even Where the Owner Gives an Identifying Mark
• 298: If the Watchman Says he is Unsure How Much he Needs to Pay and the Owner Claims he is Sure
• 299: If Two Deposited With One and One Comes to Claim
• 300: If Two Individuals Deposited and One Deposited 100 and the Other Deposited 200 and Each One Claims 200
• 301: The Laws of Watchmen on Slaves, Real Property, Hekdesh and Property of the Poor
• 302: The Laws of Watchmen Apply to Men and Women

Paid Watchmen

• 303: What Matters a Paid Watchman is Liable or Exempt For and When His Liability Begins
• 304: When One Who Transports Barrels From Place to Place is Liable if the Barrels Break
• 305: A Watchman Who Denied or Claims an Unavoidable Accident Occurred or the Item was Stolen

Craftsmen

• 306: Craftsmen Are Paid Watchmen and What Happens if They Damage and a Butcher that Slaughtered Improperly

Renters

• 307: The Laws of the Renter, When he is Liable and When he is Exempt and if he Loaned or Rented Out
• 308: How Much One Can Load On an Animal He Rented to Ride On
• 309: If One Rents an Animal to Bring to a Known Location and He Brings it to Another Location
• 310: One Who Rents a Donkey and it Became Blind or Broke
• 311: If One Rents a Boat and it Unloaded or Sunk Halfway
• 312: If One Rents a House to Another for a Set Time or Without Specification
• 313: What Areas a Tenant Who Rents a Large Building From Another Can Use
• 314: What Matters the Landlord or Tenant Have to Do
• 315: The Law of One Who Rents Out a House Conditionally
• 316: One Who Rents a Home to Another for a Set Time and the Tenant Wants to Sublease to Others
• 317: If the Tenant Says He Paid for the Rental and the Landlord Says He Did Not
• 318: One Who Rents a Mill From Another and Then Does Not Need it
• 319: One Who Misleads Another to Allow Him to Bring Fruits Into the Other’s House

Land-Leasing and Contracting

• 320: How Parties Should Act When One Accepts or Leases From Another
• 321: One Who Accepts an Irrigated Field or a Field With Trees and They Dried Up
• 322: If One Accepts a Field From Another and Grasshoppers Consumed it or Wind Destroyed it
• 323: One Who Accepts a Field From Another and its Produce was Blighted
• 324: If One Accepts a Field to Plant a Specific Species and He Wants to Deviate
• 325: If One Who Accepts a Field is Permitted to Plant Flax
• 326: One Who Accepted a Field to Plant Sesame and Planted Wheat
• 327: The Law of One Who Accepted Who Wants to Remove Himself and the Plants Have Not Yet Finished
• 328: The Law of One Who Accepts a Field and Wants to Terminate Because of the Inferiority of the Field
• 329: One Who Accepts a Field For a Set Time and Died, Survived by a Son
• 330: One Who Accepts a Field to Plant Many Trees

Hiring Workers

• 331: One Who Hires Workers Should Act With Them in Accordance With Local Custom
• 332: The Law of One Who Tells His Agent to Hire Works for Him and he Hired Them For More Than the Employer Told Him To
• 333: If One Hires a Worker and the Worker Wants to Retract Before or After he Started Working
• 334: One Who Hires a Worker to Irrigate a Field and One Who Hires a Schoolteacher and his Son Became Ill
• 335: One Who Hires a Worker Without Specification or for a Specific Job
• 336: One Who Hires a Worker to Work for Him and He Directs Him to Another
• 337: The Law of a Worker Eating While Working: What and When He Can Eat
• 338: The Law of an Animal Eating While Working and the Restriction on Muzzling It
• 339: The Requirement to Pay for a Person, Animal or Vessel On Time, and What is Considered On Time

Borrowing

• 340: The Borrower is Liable for Unavoidable Accidents, an Animal that Dies Due to its Work and if the Borrower Sent the Item With His Son or Slave
• 341: If One Borrows an Item From Another Without Specification or for a Set Time
• 342: A Borrower Cannot Lend Out
• 343: The Law of the Borrower After the Loan Period has Concluded
• 344: If the Borrower Claimed the Animal Died Because of its Work or He Wants to Pay or Swear
• 345: The Law of One Who Borrows a Cow and Rents Another
• 346: The Law of the Exemption of Borrowing With the Owners with all its Rules and a Husband’s Right to His Wife’s Property
• 347: The Law Where the Borrower’s Cow Damaged the Owner’s Cow or Vice Versa

Theft

• 348: The Restriction on Stealing, Who is Called a Thief and From What Point is He Liable
• 349: The Law of a Woman, Slave or Minor Who Stole
• 350: If One Stole the Forbidden Fats of Another and Ate Them
• 351: The Law of One Who Steals a Wallet on Shabbos
• 352: [If One Deposited With Two, Who Claim it Was Stolen]
• 353: If the Stolen Item Changed in the Thief’s Possession or its Owner Gave Up Hope On It
• 354: If the Value of the Stolen Item Appreciated While in the Thief’s Possession
• 355: A Thief Who Returned the Stolen Item Without the Owner’s Knowledge
• 356: One is Prohibited From Purchasing Something From a Thief and One Who Purchases From a Well-Known Thief or a Thief that is Not Well-Known
• 357: One Who Recognizes His Vessels and Books and a Rumor of Theft Emerged in the City
• 358: Items that One is Prohibited From Purchasing From a Shepherd, Fruit-Watchman or Craftsman

Robbery

• 359: The Prohibition of Robbery Even With the Intent to Return, What is Considered Robbery and the Prohibition of “Do Not Covet” and “Do Not Desire”
• 360: The Commandment for a Robber to Return the Theft and if the Theft is Not Worth a Perutah
• 361: The Law of Giving Up Hope With a Change in Name or Possession
• 362: If the Robbed Item Appreciates Automatically While in the Robber’s Possession
• 363: One Who Robs an Animal or Slave and They Age, and One Who Dwells in Another’s Courtyard Without Permission
• 364: If One Entered So and So’s House and Removed Vessels or Grabbed Gold Coins From Him
• 365: One Who Robs and Does Not Know Who He Robbed
• 366: Whether We Accept From a Robber Who Comes to Repent
• 367: A Robber Who Comes to Return the Robbed Item and One Who Robs His Father
• 368: The Law of One Who Rescues or Acquires from Jewish or Gentile Bandits
• 369: One is Prohibited From Purchasing From a Robber or From Benefiting from their Money and How Government Laws Play a Role
• 370: Matters that are Rabbinical Robbery, Such as Flying Pigeons and Dice-Playing
• 371: Real Property Cannot be Robbed, Even if the Owner Gave Up Hope
• 372: How the Victim Would Collect From a Robber Who Ruined the Field and Consumed its Fruits
• 373: The Law of What Happens to the Buyer Where the Robber Sold and the Buyer Caused an Appreciation
• 374: If the Robber Sold and Subsequently Purchased the Property From the Victim or Received it as a Gift
• 375: If One Goes Down to Another’s Field or Ruins and Plants it
• 376: The Law of One Who Encroaches on Another’s Boundary
• 377: One Who Has a Public Path Passing Through His Field

Damages

• 378: One is Prohibited From Damaging the Possessions of Another or Causing Any Damage
• 379: The Law Where One Comes With His Barrel, the Other Comes With His Beam and the Barrel is Broken
• 380: If One Tells Another to Rip His or Another’s Clothing or a Pursuer or Pursued That Broke Vessels
• 381: The Law of Five Who Sat On One Bench
• 382: One Who Cuts Another’s Tree and One Who Prevents Another From Performing a Mitzvah
• 383: The Law of A Person Who Damages Another’s Animal
• 384: The Law of a Person Who Damages Without Using His Body
• 385: The Law of Unrecognizable Damage, Such As One Who Pours Another’s Wine for Idol Worship
• 386: The Distinction Between “Grama” and “Garmi” and One Who Throws a Vessel from the Roof
• 387: We Appraise the Broken Parts to the Victim and the Tortfeasor Pays the Difference

Physically Destroying Another's Money, Informer & Snitch

• 388: The Law of One Who Swears and Collects

Damage by Property

• 389: The Law of a Person’s Money that Damaged, the Distinction Between an Unwarned-Animal and a Warned-Animal, and in What Location is One Liable for Horn-Damage, Teeth-Damage and Leg-Damage
• 390: Leg-Damage and its Subcategories and the Laws of Pebbles and a Dog or Chicken That Jumped
• 391: In What Location and What Form of Eating Would Tooth-Damage Pay for What Was Damaged or What He Benefited
• 392: The Law of a Dog that Took a Coal, Ate the Coal and Lit the Haystack
• 393: If One Brings His Fruits to Another’s Courtyard Without Permission and the Owner of the Courtyard is Damaged by Them
• 394: How We Would Appraise the Damage if an Animal Fell Into a Garden and Damaged
• 395: One Who Incites a Dog on Another or on Himself
• 396: How One Guards an Unwarned or Warned Ox or If One Gave Over an Ox to an Unpaid or Paid Watchman
• 397: One Whose Animal Often Enters Another’s Field and the Butcher’s Animal That Damages
• 398: If One Brought His Ox to Another’s Courtyard Without Permission or He Gave Him Permission to Bring it in
• 399: If a Cow Damaged, One Can Collect From its Offspring, and How We Appraise an Ox that Gored a Pregnant Cow
• 400: If an Ox Was Pursuing Another or Two Were Pursuing or Two Were Being Pursued
• 401: An Ox that Gored and Gored Again and if the Victim Seized and it Then Gored Again
• 402: Two Oxen That Injured Each Other and They Were Unwarned or Warned
• 403: We Appraise the Broken Parts for the Victim, and if the Value Depreciated or Appreciated
• 404: An Ox That Injured an Ox or the Ox Appreciated or Depreciated
• 405: An Ox that Injured a Person or Gored a Woman or Maidservant
• 406: An Ox of an Idolater, an Ownerless Ox or an Ox of a Deaf-Mute, Fool or Minor
• 407: If an Ox Gored and the Tortfeasor or Victim Sold It
• 408: We Only Judge Damage Cases With Clear Proof
• 409: One May Not Raise a Small Domesticated Animal in Civilization or a Pig or Vicious Dog in All Locations
• 410: In What Location Is One Liable For a Pit, What Size it Needs to be and the All the Laws of a Pit
• 411: Subcategories of Pit-Damage, Such As One’s Stone, Knife or Load that Damaged
• 412: One Who Places a Barrel in the Public Domain and Another Trips On It or One is Carrying a Barrel and He Trips and It Breaks and One Who Poured Water Into the Public Domain and It Damaged
• 413: The Law of Potters that Were Walking One After the Other and They Tripped and Fell
• 414: When a Person is Permitted to Take Out His Fertilizer to the Public Domain
• 415: One Who Builds His Fence With Thorns and Another is Damaged by Them and One Who Hides Thorns in Another’s Wall
• 416: A Wall or Tree That Was Shaky, Fell and Damaged
• 417: One May Not Remove Any Damaging Item to the Public Domain
• 418: Fire-Damage, When One is Exempt and When He is Liable, Fire-Damage of Hidden Objects and All Its Laws
• 419: How We Collect Damages From a Tortfeasor or His Inheritors

Striking Another

• 420: One Who Strikes Another is Liable For Five Matters, How We Evaluate Them, and One Who Embarrasses a Scholar or Ignoramus With Words
• 421: One Who Embarrasses Another Unintentionally and One Who Injures Another Unintentionally
• 422: The Tortfeasor Must Appease to Victim In Order That He Forgive Him
• 423: If a Woman was Struck and Her Offspring Came Out and How We Appraise the Value of Offspring
• 424: One Who Injures His Father or Mother, One Who Injures His Children or One Who Injures Another on Shabbos
• 425: How We Judge Capital Cases Today
• 426: One is Obligated To Rescue Another, Whether it is With His Body or Possessions
• 427: The Positive Commandment to Remove Any Stumbling Block that Endangers Life and the Requirement to Build a Fence