1
The historical Fetha contains rules regulating slavery and manumission inherited from earlier legal systems. This House reconstruction records that historical layer without converting human ownership into a timeless covenantal ideal.
2
Manumission releases the person from the legal condition of servitude under the received system and should be interpreted in favor of liberty where the act is genuinely established.
3
No person may lawfully be kidnapped and converted into property merely through force.
4
Claims of ownership over a person require the strictest scrutiny of provenance under the historical system.
5
Children, debts, marriage, and property acquired by a person in servitude are to be distinguished rather than indiscriminately absorbed by a master.
6
Where modern human-rights law governs, its prohibition of slavery supersedes the historical servitude regime.