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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QUOTATIONS FROM NÂRADA.
III, 4.
granted to him (by the judge), whether he be plaintiff or defendant.
4. When the defendant contradicts the charge, such an answer is termed a denial in a cause.
5. When, the plaint having been reduced to writ-. ing by the plaintiff, the defendant admits it but adduces some special circumstance, it is called a (retort in the form) pratyavaskandana (special plea).
6. That (answer) is no (true) answer which is dubious, not to the point, too narrow, too extensive, or meeting one part only of the plaint.
7. An answer which treats of a different subject, or which is incomplete, or couched in obscure language, or confused, not intelligible without an explanation, or unreasonable, will never enable (the defendant) to gain his cause.
4. Raghunandana, p. 17; M. Macn. I, 5, 7, &c. ('Kâtyâyana'). 5. M. Macn. I, 5, 9.
6,7. V.T.; M. Macn. I, 5, 11. Dubious,' as when (the plaintiff) having declared: This man has received a hundred Suvarnas from me, (the defendant replies): Yes, I have received a hundred Suvarnas or a hundred Mâshas. Not to the point,' as when a debtor being sued for a hundred Suvarnas, replies that he has received a hundred Panas. "Too narrow,' as when (a debtor) being sued for a hundred Suvarnas, replies that he has received five.
Too extensive,' as when a debtor) being sued for a hundred Suvarnas, replies that he has received two hundred. Meeting one part only of the plaint,' as when (a debtor) being sued for gold, clothes, and other objects, replies that he has received gold but nothing else. Which treats of a different subject, as when an action for debt is answered by referring to a different title of law, e. g. when a man being sued for a debt of a hundred Suvarnas, replies, He (the plaintiff) has struck me. 'Incomplete,' not containing any reference to the particulars of country, place, and so on, as when the plaint states a certain field situated in the central country (Madhyadesa) near Benares, towards the east of it, to have been seized by the defendant, and the defendant replies merely, 'I
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