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V, 154.
CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAW.
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140. If a female buffalo damages grain, her keeper shall be fined eight Mâshas.
141. If she has been without a keeper, her owner (shall pay that fine).
142. (For mischief done by) a horse, or a camel, or an ass (the fine shall be the same).
143. (For damage done by) a cow, it shall be half.
144. (For damage done by) a goat, or a sheep, (it shall be) half of that again.
145. For cattle abiding (in the field), after having eaten (grain), the fine shall be double.
146. And in every case the owner (of the field) shall receive the value of the grain that has been destroyed.
147. There is no offence if the damage has been done near a highway, near a village, or (in a field adjacent to) the common pasture-ground for cattle;
148. Or (if it has been done) in an uninclosed field;
149. Or if the cattle did not abide long;
150. Or if the damage has been done by bulls that have been set at liberty, or by a cow shortly after her calving.
151. He who commits members of the highest (or Brâhmana) caste to slavery, shall pay the highest amercement.
152. An apostate from religious mendicity shall become the king's slave.
153. A hired workman who abandons his work before the term has expired shall pay the whole amount (of the stipulated wages) to his employer ;
154. And he shall pay a hundred Panas to the king.
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