فإن أقر بمال لزمه بعد الحرية
Translation: An admission of financial liability would bind the person after emancipation.
Quduri gives financial admissions by an enslaved person a distinctive historical effect: the personal liability would be enforceable after emancipation, rather than immediately against the master’s asserted proprietary interests.
If that person admitted a debt, the question was whether the obligation bound them personally or could at once diminish the master’s estate. The text separates those interests. This is a historical legal ruling, not a general present-day rule for debt acknowledgment.
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Financial admission with deferred enforceability
Kitab al-Hajr: Grounds of Legal Restriction, Capacity and Liability
فإن أقر بمال لزمه بعد الحرية
Translation: An admission of financial liability would bind the person after emancipation.
Quduri gives financial admissions by an enslaved person a distinctive historical effect: the personal liability would be enforceable after emancipation, rather than immediately against the master’s asserted proprietary interests.
If that person admitted a debt, the question was whether the obligation bound them personally or could at once diminish the master’s estate. The text separates those interests. This is a historical legal ruling, not a general present-day rule for debt acknowledgment.