Me'ilah

Me'ilah (מְעִילָה‎; "misuse of property") is a tractate of Seder Kodashim in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Babylonian Talmud.

It deals chiefly with the exact provisions of the law (Lev.

5:15-16) concerning the trespass-offering and the reparation which must be made by one who has used and enjoyed a consecrated thing.

In the Mishnaic order this treatise is the eighth, and contains six chapters comprising 38 paragraphs in all.

Its contents may be summarized as follows: In the Tosefta, Me'ilah is the seventh treatise and has only three chapters.