אמרוה רבנן קמיה דרב פפא בדון מינה ומינה בדון מינה ואוקי באתרה קא מיפלגי
And did that which is not good among his people:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. XVIII, 18.');"><sup>16</sup></span> Rab said this refers to one who comes with power of attorney;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He is authorised by one of the litigants to take his place; he is doing 'that which is not good among his people', if he undertakes it merely our of love of contention and litigation, for the litigant himself might have been willing to compromise, whereas he presses for the full amount of the claim. If, however, the litigant himself is not able to appear for some reason, and he is acting on his behalf, in order to obtain his money for him, he is doing a meritorious act; v. Tosaf. a.l.');"><sup>17</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
From the laws of the commandment is that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Shevuot 31a) [regarding] two litigants, whereby one was dressed in expensive clothes and the other in worn clothes, we say to the honored one, "Dress him like you, or dress like him; and afterwards, we will judge between you" - so that they be equal. And now in our time, we have not seen a court that did this. And they, may their memory be blessed, also said (Mishneh Torah, Laws of The Sanhedrin and the Penalties within their Jurisdiction 21:3) that it is a commandment to sit them equally, and not that one be above his fellow or that one be sitting and the other be standing - except for a Torah scholar and an ignoramus, about which they said that we seat the Torah scholar and say to the ignoramus, "Sit"; but if he does not sit, we are not concerned about this (Mishneh Torah, Laws of The Sanhedrin and the Penalties within their Jurisdiction 21:4). And they, may their memory be blessed, said (Mishneh Torah, Laws of The Sanhedrin and the Penalties within their Jurisdiction 21:6) that if many cases came in front of you, and among them was a case of an orphan or a widow, that it is a commandment to have them precede [the others]; as it is stated (Isaiah 1:17), "judge the orphan, dispute for the widow" - meaning to say that we were commanded to quicken their cases more than with the case of others. And so [too,] did they, may their memory be blessed, say (Ketuvot 105b) that the case of a Torah scholar precedes the case of an ignoramus, and the case of a woman precedes the case of a man - since the embarrassment of a woman is great. And all this that we said is included in "you shall judge with righteousness." And these matters, together with the rest of the details of the commandment are in scattered places in the Talmud, and many among them are in Sanhedrin and Shevuot (see Tur, Choshen Mishpat 17).
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