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VI, 39.
become a religious ascetic, or remain abroad for twenty years, that debt shall be discharged by his sons or grandsons;
28. But not by remoter descendants against their will.
LAW OF DEBT.
29. He who takes the assets of a man, leaving or not leaving male issue, must pay the sum due (by him);
30. And (so must) he who has the care of the widow left by one who had no assets.
31. A woman (shall) not (be compelled to pay) the debt of her husband or son;
32. Nor the husband or son (to pay) the debt of a woman (who is his wife or mother);
33. Nor a father to pay the debt of his son.
34. A debt contracted by parceners shall be paid by any one of them who is present.
35. And so shall the debt of the father (be paid) by (any one of) the brothers (or of their sons) before partition.
36. But after partition they shall severally pay according to their shares of the inheritance.
37. A debt contracted by the wife of a herdsman, distiller of spirits, public dancer, washer, or hunter shall be discharged by the husband (because he is supported by his wife).
38. (A debt of which payment has been previously) promised must be paid by the householder;
39. And (so must he pay that debt) which was
38, 39. Regarding these two Sutras see Jolly, Indisches Schuldrecht, in the Transactions of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1877, p. 309, note.
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