Iranian Studies Legal Terms in the Middle Persian

In this paper, the writer has made an attempt to discuss certain legal issues in the Sassanid period. The basis of this paper is the only book survived from that period: Ma¦ d¦ iy¦an ¦ i haz¦ar D¦adest¦an or ``One Thousand Legal Articles''. Besides criminal law, the book deals with other legal issues including inheritance books Mowl¦an¦a has explicitly referred to or has been mentioned by his disciples.In this last section of the paper, the writer deals with only two books: Resa¦ le-ye Sepahs¦al¦ar and Manaqeb al-‘Aref¦ in.