Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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V, 127.
CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAW.
(such as studying the Vedas without having been initiated);
117. And for breaking open a house on which (the king's) seal is laid;
118. And for making an oath without having been asked to do so (by the king or a judge);
119. And for depriving cattle of their virility.
120. The fine for the witnesses in a dispute between father and son shall be ten Panas.
121. For him who acts as surety for either of the two parties in such a contest, the highest amercement (is ordained).
122. (The same punishment is ordained) for forging a balance, or a measure;
123. Also, for pronouncing them incorrect, although they are correct.
124. (The same punishment is) also (ordained) for selling adulterated commodities;
125. And for a company of merchants who prevent the sale of a commodity (which happens to be abroad) by selling it under its price.
126. (The same punishment is ordained) for those (members of such a company) who sell (an article belonging to the whole company for more than it is worth) on their own account.
127. He who does not deliver to the purchaser a commodity (sold), after its price has been paid to him, shall be compelled to deliver it to him with interest;
117. Nand. considers the particle ka to imply that the exchange of sealed goods for others shall be punished in the same way. But this assertion rests upon a false reading (samudraparivarta for samudgaparivarta) of Y. II, 247, which passage Nand. quotes in support of his view,
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