Methods of Metaphorical Transfer: Cause, Effect and Legal Meaning
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- What is fundamental to legally meaningful metaphorical transfer?
- Which two connections govern the legal patterns discussed?
- What direction of transfer is available between a legal cause and its effect?
- What is the basic distinction between purchase and ownership?
- What is decisive under “If I own a slave” after acquiring two halves at different times?
- Why may “If I buy a slave” operate differently from the ownership condition?
- What can justify using ownership-language to intend purchase?
- Which direction is stated for a mere means and its effect?
- What is the original legal sense of “ḥarrartuki”?
- What supports “I set you free” addressed to a wife with divorce intended?
- How is the divorce in the discussed “ḥarrartuki” case classified?
- Why is “I divorced you” not accepted as emancipation by the same reasoning?
- What feature links gift language to marriage in the stated Hanafi analysis?
- Which wording is discussed as potentially capable of forming marriage in the Hanafi setting?
- Which conclusion does not follow from using gift language for marriage?
- Why does saying the word for marriage not establish a literal sale or gift?
- What is the stated rule when context identifies a unique figurative meaning?
- What is needed if manumission language to a wife plausibly means release from service or divorce?
- Why can transfer wording directed to a free woman be interpreted in a marriage setting?
- How do legal possibility of metaphor and need for intention relate?
- What issue is illustrated by an oath to touch the sky?
- What must be checked before concluding that expiation follows an oath?
- Which factors must be considered together in interpreting literal and transferred senses?
- Which pair exemplifies one-way metaphor in the discussed legal framework?
- Which formulation best explains the cause–effect example?
- What does the qualification “it does not reverse” establish?
- Which analysis is most complete?
- Purchase and ownership have identical literal meanings.
- Allowing original-to-derivative transfer in the mere-means pattern automatically validates the reverse.
- A uniquely determined figurative meaning need not be separately selected through intention.