Document Type : Research original ,Regular Article
Abstract
Mādayān ī Hazār Dādestān or the collection of A Thousand Judgments is a legal text. This text was compiled at the end of the Sasanian era, . Among the legal issues of this text are slavery, guardianship, guarantee, marriage, divorce, contract, etc. In addition, many legal terms have been used in the text, and their study will familiarize us with the specific concepts of these terms. The topic of this research is about "covenant" which is mentioned in the text with the terms pašt, paymān and wizīr. The purpose of this research is to examine the issues related to the covenant in order to compare the three mentioned terms. The question that this research intends to answer is, what are the legal issues related to these 3 terms? And what is the difference between these terms? The research method is descriptive and analytical and the data collection method is library. Some of the results of this research are as follows: These terms are used in different subjects, which are sometimes the same. Analysis showed that pašt is a verbal agreement . A paymān is an oral or written contract . wizīr is also a contract document .
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