Chapter 7, Mishna 1

What if defendant and plaintiff disagree about amount owed but both are suspect and therefore can’t take oath? Do they divide the disputed amount?
What does it mean that “the oath returns to its place”?
What about orphans whose father had an unpaid promissory note, do they take an oath?
Do orphans have to take an oath to get paid on their father’s promissory note from orphans of borrower?
Don’t orphans have a privileged status?
When do lenders’ orphans have to take an oath to get payment of promissory note from debtor’s orphans?
Can a debt that requires oath-taking be bequeathed to children?
What does it mean that oath returns to Sinai?
Is there ultimate justice?
What if victim of supposed theft of valuable item brings one witness?
What if someone is liable to take an oath that he is not a robber but he isn’t qualified to take an oath?
What is situation where one his liable to take an oath but his heirs would not be liable?
What if lender’s son claimed 100 dinars owed and borrower’s son agreed that 50 is owed but doesn’t know about other 50?
Is enabling another to commit adultery the same offense as adultery?
What is relevance of Euphrates River being “great”?
When does it mean that we rely on ledger of a storekeeper?
If laborers take an oath that storekeeper did not pay, does storekeeper also need to take oath?
What if there are two sets of witnesses that contradict each other, therefore one set of them testified falsely but we don’t know which – will we let any of those witnesses swear oaths in other cases?
What if there’s two promissory notes signed by these four people with same borrower and same lender?
What if there’s two lenders and a single borrower and two promissory notes?
What if there’s one lender and two borrowers and two promissory notes?
What if one witness came to testify about new moon and another witness disagrees about how high moon was?
If there’s a dispute between customer and storekeeper re: produce, which one has burden of proof?
When do lender’s orphans have to take an oath to be paid by borrower’s orphans?
What is relevance of when lender died?
If widow dies without getting money from her first marriage contract, do her orphans have to take an oath?
What if man’s second wife takes an oath but dies before she receives payment?
How to protect both orphans of man and his second wife/widow?
Do her heirs take an oath to collect from his heirs?
When is power of son greater than the power of the father and what does that mean?

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