The process of transferring assets and its rules based on Mādayān ī hazār dādestān

Abstract

Mādayān ī hazār dādestān is a text that belong to late Sassanid era, the 7th century AD,and covers legal issues in the pre-Islamic period. Analyzing two chapters of this text reveals the steps of asset transfer and its rules. One of them is related to the transfer of assets, which describes how to transfer assets from one person to another. The next chapter has been described how the recipient will accept the asset. The purpose of this research is to describe the steps of asset transfer and its rules. And it tries to answer the question, what are the steps for the transfer of assets and what were the rules for it? According to this text, everyone had the right to give something of their property to someone. In the first step, the person expressed his desire to transfer, and the so-called declaration of ownership. Then, the asset was taken out of the custodian's possession and given to the recipient; But the condition of the final ownership was that the recipient would accept and declare that he had accepted the asset. This had to be carefully explained and recorded, and in that case the transfer and acceptance was completely legal.