Crown Rights and Restrictions. The prince was at liberty to gift part of his estate inalienably to his sons: but what was deeded to a courtier reverted to the crown on the year of release (i.e. the seventh year, cf. Jeremiah 34:14, or, less probably, the fiftieth year, cf. Leviticus 25:10). The prince was not at liberty to appropriate, under any pretext, any of the land of the common people, as Ahab had seized the vineyard of Naboth (1 Kings 21).

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