gorer

Noun

gorer (plural gorers)

1. (Jewish law) An ox that gores other creatures.
   • 1975, Bernard S. Jackson, Essays in Jewish and Comparative Legal History, E. J. Brill, page 134:

     If the victim was worth 20 shekels alive and 2 dead, so that the loss, allowing for division of the cadaver, is 19, and the gorer fetches 30 shekels, then the owner of the victim will receive 15 shekels, over three-quarters of his loss.

   • 1992, Roman A. Ohrenstein and Barry Gordon, Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature: Rabbinic Thought in the Light of Modern Economics, E. J. Brill, page 12:

     An example of the talmudic reasoning in this regard is the case where the defendant sold an ox to the claimant, and the ox was found to be a gorer. The claimant now wants his money back on the ground that his purchase was a “mistaken transaction”. Most people, it can be allowed, acquire an ox for purposes of ploughing, and a gorer is not satisfactory for that purpose.

   • 2008, Chaim Navon, translated by David Strauss, Genesis and Jewish Thought, KTAV Publishing House, pages 72-73:

     The Eshnunna Laws recognize the difference between an ox that was not known to be a gorer and an ox that was known to be a gorer. Nonetheless, they are lenient with regard to an ox that killed a man, even when it was known to be a gorer.

Anagrams

• Reorg., Roger, reorg, roger