Abstract
The study of in ancient Egypt is hampered by the lack of a digest of legal decisions1 comparable to the Code of Hammurabi (and similar codes, more properly collections of case law2) from Mesopotamia. The best we have is the Hermopolis or Demotic Code, or Legal Manual.3 It is a late compilation of the 3rd century (though some of it may go back to the 8th century B.C.).4 But we do know that Diodorus praised the completeness of Egyptian and that several pharaohs (including kings of the Saite Dynasty)5 are said to have made revisions in the legal system.6 In addition, the study of ancient Egyptian suffers because comprehensive legal legislation (Statutory Law) does not survive (whether such existed in the rolls of law is not important here). Lacking such codification we must glean the surviving inscriptions which discuss legal disputes and/or decisions, contracts, the few actual legal documents that survive, and allusions to legal documents in literary or religious texts. The problem this causes is obvious: our knowledge of ancient Egyptian remains incomplete. Keeping this in mind, solid progress has still been accomplished in clarifying certain classes of legal documents like the Jmyt-pr. This study will concentrate on the Jmyt-pr document. This document concerned the transfer
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