Book of Emancipation

Manumission is valid when carried out by any owner who has full legal capacity to dispose of his property. It becomes effective through explicit wording of emancipation and through indirect wording when accompanied by the intention to set the slave free. If a person emancipates part of a slave, the whole slave is set free. Should a co-owner free his share of a slave while he is solvent, the emancipation extends to the remainder, and he must pay his partner the value of that partner’s share. Whoever comes to own one of his parents or any of his descendants automatically sets that relative free.

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Al-walāʾ—the bond that arises from manumission—is one of the rights attendant upon emancipation, and in its absence it follows the rules of agnatic succession. The walāʾ passes from the emancipator to the male members of his agnatic kin in the order