هَدْم

هَدْم

Hadm in the lexical sense is tearing down a building, destruction or collapse; the technical sense does not depart from this. ¹ It is of two kinds: real demolition of a structure, and figurative demolition of something else, such as a contract, meaning annulment. ² Real demolition is required in several cases: a church built by People of the Book in a city the Muslims founded, a building within a river's buffer, a projecting structure over a public road that harms passers-by (the judge orders it removed), and a leaning wall, whose demolisher bears no liability. ^{2 3} Real demolition has legal effects: demolishing a mosque wall obliges its restoration, a buyer who demolishes part of the house confirms the sale, and one who demolishes a house decorated with figural images owes its value. ³ The figurative case is triple divorce: a woman divorced three times returns to her husband, after another marriage, under a new marriage, the earlier divorce being demolished. ³