property may be either divisible or indivisible. Examples of indivisible property include a single slave, a single horse, a jewel, a single vessel, and the like.

This chapter—the chapter on division—addresses such questions as whether division consists in separating rights and distinguishing shares, or constitutes a sale; whether, when property cannot be divided and one of its two co-owners requests its sale so that the proceeds may be divided, the other can be compelled to sell; and whether, if division would harm one of the two co-owners, the one who refuses can be compelled to accept it, along with similar questions.

Other examples include their discussions concerning profit-sharing investment partnerships and spoils of war: does ownership of the profit or booty arise as soon as it becomes available, or only upon distribution? They also speak of “the chapter on distributing charity, spoils of war, and property acquired without fighting,” and other such expressions, of which