The Obligations of Contractors
If one hired craftsmen and they deceived each other, they have no legally valid complaint against each other but only cause for complaint. If one hired a donkey driver or a wagon driver to bring litter bearers or pipers for a bride or for the dead, or laborers to take his flax out of the steep, or any matter that would be lost if delayed, and they retracted, if it was a place where there were no others [who could be hired for the same wage], he may hire others at their [the original workers’] expense, or he may deceive them.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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