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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BRIHASPATI.
XI, 44.
they must not be attacked when the debtor is present : such is the law regarding sureties.
44. When (a surety), being harassed, pays a proved debt which he has vouched for, (the debtor) shall pay him twice as much, after the lapse of a month and a half.
45. Should foolish (sureties) in good faith pay the debt, though not required to do so, or on being required to pay a different debt, how and from whom can they recover that sum ?
46. By whom, to whom, and how, should, or should not, be paid a loan which has been received from the hands of another man in the shape of a loan on interest, will now be declared.
47. A loan shall be restored on demand, if no time has been fixed (for its restoration); or on the expiration of the time (if a definite period has been fixed); or when interest ceases (on becoming equal to the principal). If the father is no longer alive, (the debt must be paid) by his sons.
48. The father's debt must be paid first of all, and after that, a man's own debt; but a debt contracted by the paternal grandfather must always be paid before these two even.
49. The father's debt, on being proved, must be paid by the sons as if it were their own; the grandfather's debt must be paid (by his son's sons) without
44. Vîram. p. 328. 45. Ratn. p. 46; Col. Dig. I, 4, 163. 46. Ratn. p. 47; Col. Dig. I, 5, 166. 47. Ratn. p. 47; Col. Dig. I, 5, 166; Viv. p. 32. 48. Ratn. p. 47; Col. Dig. I, 5, 167; May. p. 112.
49. May. p. 112; Col. Dig. I, 5, 167. As if it were their own,' i. e. with interest. Ratn.
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