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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IX, 17.
POSSESSION.
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is not lost (to the owner) by mere force of possession, if the possessor stands to him in the relation of a friend, relative, or kinsman.
12. Such wealth as is possessed by a son-in-law, a learned Brahman, or by the king or his ministers, does not become legitimate property for them after the lapse of a very long period even.
13. Forcible means must not be resorted to by the present occupant or his son, in maintaining possession of the property of an infant, or of a learned Brahman, or of that which has been legitimately inherited from a father,
14. Nor (in maintaining possession) of cattle, a woman, a slave, or other (property). This is a legal rule.
15. If a doubt should arise in regard to a house or field, of which its occupant has not held possession uninterruptedly, he should undertake to prove (his enjoyment of it) by means of documents, (the depositions of) persons knowing him as possessor, and witnesses.
16. Those are witnesses in a contest of this kind who know the name, the boundary, the title (of acquisition), the quantity, the time, the quarter of the sky, and the reason why possession has been interrupted.
17. By such means should a question regarding occupation and possession be decided in a contest concerning landed property; but in a cause in which
15-17. Vîram. p. 222.
16. Read nâmâghâlâgamam. The title,' the cause of ownership, such as gift. "The quantity,' of land. The quarter of the sky,' a description of the region in which a certain estate is situated. • The time,' at which the estate was acquired. Todarananda.
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