Book of Partnership

Question: There are grazing commons (maḥājir) and irrigation channels (masāqī). The people of a land may agree to divide those tracts among themselves. Is it obligatory, in such cases, to allocate women’s shares, or not?

Question: Custom in our lands has run, regarding the runoff attached to plots and plantings, that when they wish to divide it, the holder of the runoff right takes half, and the holder of the grazing right takes the other...

Question: Tribes have mutually recognized the division of wilderness and mountains. If they disagree and take their case to a judge, should he judge between them according to what they have mutually recognized? Or according to what the Law decrees—even...

Question: Is one who refuses to divide runoff waters and the like of rights to be compelled, or not?

Question: If the partners disagree over how to divide a tract of land—some saying it should be divided lengthwise, and some saying widthwise—and then they draw lots between them, what should the judge or the conciliator do in such a...

Question: Two people are partners in land, buildings, and trade. One of them requested division, but the other refused. Must the one who refuses accept the division, or not?

Question: Is it permissible for a man to move the road from one side of his land to the other without causing harm to the holder of the right of way? And does this differ between a public road and...

Question: Three men are partners in a well and a machine. One of them sold his share to one partner. The other partner said to the buyer: “You must buy my share too; if you cannot, I will buy your...

Question: Two men are partners in a well. One of them requested from the other that it be dug and deepened; the other refused. What is the ruling?

Question: When constructing the second floor, a neighbor opened large windows that fully overlook his neighbor’s house. Between the two houses there is a separating strip estimated at a meter and a half. The one with the windows claims that...