Note 46

46. If the deceased should leave children who are under age, their share of the inheritance must be entrusted to a reliable individual # 27

The word "&amin", translated in this paragraph as "reliable individual" and "trustee", conveys in Arabic a wide range of meanings connected principally with the idea of trustworthiness, but signifying also such qualities as reliability, loyalty, faithfulness, uprightness, honesty, and so forth. Used in legal parlance "&amin" denotes, among other things, a trustee, guarantor, custodian, guardian, and keeper.