One mina which A and B have put together for common business. All that it makes is common property. Or thus: Two minas each, A and B, have as _ḫarrânu_. All that it makes, in town and country, is in common. Rent of the house to be paid from capital.(755) (M705) They had a house, as shop and warehouse, the rent of which was a charge upon the business. Slaves might be partners with free men, even with their masters. A partner might merely furnish the capital or both might do so, and commit it to the hands of a slave or a free man with which to do business. The slave took his living out of such capital, and the free man received either provisions or a fixed payment. Thus we read:(756) Five minas and six hundred and thirty pots of aromatics belong to A and B as partners. This stock is given to C, a slave, and D, another slave, with which to do business. Whatever it makes is A and B’s in common. C and D take food and clothing from the profits where they go. It is not unlikely that each slave was to look after his own master’s interests. For we read:(757) Six minas belong to A and B and are given to C the slave of B as capital. A and B share what it makes. A will give another slave D to help C. Even women entered into business as agents. We read:(758) Two-thirds of a mina belonging to A and B are given to a free woman with which to trade. (M706) As in earlier times, the dissolution of partnership usually involved a reference to the law-courts. Thus we have(759) a reckoning before judges of two brothers and a third who were in a partnership from the eighth year of Nabopolassar to the eighteenth of Nebuchadrezzar. “The business is dissolved” (_girru paṭrat_). All the former contracts were broken and shares are assigned to each. The first two brothers were in possession of fifty shekels which were to be divided. (M707) Provisional reckonings were constantly made at frequent intervals, but did not involve dissolution of partnership, nor need to be referred to a law-court.(760) Some cases are interesting for additional items of information. Thus we note:(761) (M708) Two partners put in each fifty _GUR_ of dates. Whatever it makes is to be in common. They take a house in Borsippa for one year at rent of half a mina. The rent is to be paid out of profits. B holds the house and apparently carries on the business. At the end of the year he returns it and all the utensils to A. It seems likely that he carried on some kind of manufacture. A held the south house, next door. B also paid the tithes. A similar case where some manufacture from dates is supposed, is thus stated:(762)