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Both parties sit opposite each other, holding hands: if the little finger for instance be clasped, it means 6, 60, or 600 dollars, according to the value of the article for sale; if the ring finger, 7, 70, or 700, and so on. A worse than Asiatic idleness is the curse of this part of the world. Diwan el Jabr, for instance, is a civil court, opposed to the Mahkamah or the Kazi's tribunal.
Thus the religious code is ancillary and often opposed to "El Jabr," "the tyranny," the popular designation of what we call Civil Law. Yet is El Jabr, despite its name, generally preferred by the worldly wise. The Governor contents himself with a moderate bribe, the Kazi is insatiable: the former may possibly allow you to escape unplundered, the latter assuredly will not.
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