נִזֶק

נִזֶקm. (b. h.; denom. of זקק) (junction, touch; cmp. נגע, רע , accident, evil, injury, damage; תַּשְׁלוּמֵי נ׳ indemnity. Ab. Zar. I, 7 וכל דבר שיש בו נ׳ לרבים or anything through which the public may be injured. B. Kam. I, 1 הב … לשלם תשלומי נ׳וכ׳ the offender is bound to pay indemnity with the best of the land (out of his best lands, v. עִידִית). Ib. 2 הכשרתי במקצת נִזְקוֹ I have been partly instrumental in injuring him, v. הֶכְשַׁר. Ib. II, 5, a. fr. חצי נ׳ indemnity up to half the damage, opp. נ׳ שלם full indemnity. Ib. VIII, 1 בנ׳ בצערוכ׳ (has to pay) damages (for the maimed limb), an indemnity for the pain inflicted ; a. fr.Pl. נְזָקִים, נְזָקִין; constr. נִזְקֵי. Ib. 84a דנין נ׳ מנ׳וכ׳ we may draw an analogy between different cases of mayhem, but not between mayhem and homicide. Ib. נ׳ שור בשור damages for an ox injured by an ox; a. fr.נְזָקִין, נְזִיקִין (fr. נָזִיק) cases of damages, laws concerning injuries; damages. Ib. I, 1, v. אָב II. Mekh. Mishp. s. 14; a. fr., v. נִיזָּקִין.Esp. Nziḳin, (Seder Nziḳin) name of the fourth Order of the Mishnah, Tosefta and Talmud, also of a section of Mkhilta Mishpaṭim. Sabb.31a. Lev. R. s. 19 נ׳ ל׳ פרקים N. which contains thirty chapters; a. e.B. Kam. 102a כולה נ׳ חדאוכ׳ the entire Nziḳin (Baba Ḳamma, Mʾtsia and Bathra) is one treatise.