If a man who was married to four wives died, his first wife takes precedence over the second, the second takes precedence over the third and the third over the Fourth. The first must take an oath [in order to give satisfaction] to the second, the second to the third, and the third to the Fourth, while the Fourth recovers payment without an oath. Ben Nannus said: should she have the advantage because she is the last? She also may not exact payment except on oath, if all [Kethubahs] were issued on the same day then the woman [whose Kethubah] preceded that of the other, even if only by one hour, gains [the first right] and so it was the custom in Jerusalem to insert the hours [in such documents]. If all Kethubahs were issued at the same hour and the estate is worth no more than a maneh [the women] receive equal. Shares. |
כתובות 10.5 |
If a man who was married to two wives sold his field, and the first wife had given a written declaration to the buyer, `I have no claim whatsoever upon you`, the second wife may distrain on the buyer, and the first wife on the second, and the buyer on the first wife, and so they go on in turn until they arrange some compromise between them, the same law applies also to a creditor and to a woman creditor , |
כתובות 10.6 |
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