In another classical slavery-context example, a man specifies one identified enslaved person belonging to someone else as Mahr1 at marriage. Later, he buys that same person from the actual owner and delivers the specified Mahr to his wife.
The case is called Ada because the very individual identified in the agreement is delivered. The source case says that the wife must accept that specified delivery.
To follow the example, distinguish which individual was identified from who owned that individual at each stage. The historical institution is not being offered as a present-day transaction model.
1. Mahr: the wife's entitlement stipulated in marriage; this particular example concerns its historical specified form.
- A Specifically Identified Mahr: The Historical Case