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Authorisation of a Renunciation on a Mortgaged Land (with Appended Petition)

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Communication addressed by the exegetes Chairemon to Kronion, clerk of the grapheion, to conform to a petition, a copy of which is appended: in this, a widow, Taorses daughter of Eutychos, asks, as guardian of her minor children, to be allowed to resign by contract all claims to an important estate which had been mortgaged a few years earlier by her deceased husband and some of his brothers and later seized by the creditors, with whom she will also settle the obligations resting upon her sons for unpaid public taxes and other dues assessed against the mortgage land.

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