Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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THE PLAINT.
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witnesses, as well as those statements in which both parties concur.
21. Additional statements of the plaintiff (or defendant), which are not contained in the writings of both parties, shall be (subsequently) entered into his (their) declaration. They are called Pratyâkalita (what is interposed').
* 22. If one deputed by the claimant, or chosen as his representative by the defendant, speaks for his client in court, the victory or defeat concerns the party (himself and not the representative).
* 23. He deserves punishment who speaks in behalf of another, without being either the brother, the father, the son, or the appointed. agent; and so does he who contradicts himself at the trial.
* 24. He who forsakes his original claim and produces a new one, loses his suit, because he confounds two plaints with one another.
* 25. A verbal error does not annul the claim in
21. A. infers from the use of the term both parties' that a Pratyakalita statement may proceed from the defendant as well as from the plaintiff, though the plaintiff alone is specially mentioned. A. adds that this rule applies equally to all those kinds of statements, which are mentioned in paragraph 20.
22. This rule applies equally where a party is prevented from appearing before the court by illness, and where the party is not a good speaker, and has appointed an agent or attorney for that reason. A.
23. This prohibition relates to those who, from love, anger, or avarice, meddle with the affairs of strangers, and pretend to act in their behalf at court. A.
24. If a claimant, on finding himself unable to prove his claim at the trial, proffers a different claim, he must be pronounced the losing party, on account of the confusion caused by him. A.
25. An erroneous statement does not necessarily cause the defeat
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