PEH665

Inquiry from Joseph Alvares, who, as he writes, has otherwise handed over his questions to his father, the now unfortunately deceased Moses Israel Alvares: Two merchants who operated a business jointly also committed to running a common household with a written contract and an oath. They fell into dispute, and one swore never to sit or eat with the other again. When they reconciled, he asked whether the second oath, which contradicted the first, was valid at all, and whether the second oath also included the common meal in a foreign house. David ben Abraham Franco Mendes first mentions the deceased R. Moses Alvares and R. Salomo Salem again. Then he decides that the second oath has no legal consequences, and that under such an oath, the common meal does not fall within a foreign house. Two opinions of Moses deTRani (I, 61 and 101) are cited in the decision, among others.

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1783-01-04

Acohen d'Azevedo, David