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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XIII, 8.
SALE WITHOUT OWNERSHIP.
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2. An open deposit, a bailment for delivery (Anvâhita), a Nyasa (sealed) deposit, stolen property, a pledge, or what has been borrowed for use : when any one of these articles has been sold in secret by a man, he is declared a person different from the owner (asvâmin).
3. When the vendor has been produced and has been cast in the suit, (the judge) shall cause him to pay the price and a fine to the buyer and king respectively, and to restore the property to the owner.
4. When the former owner comes forward and makes good his claim to the thing bought, the vendor shall be produced (by the purchaser); by doing so, the purchaser may clear himself.
5. That greedy man who covets another man's property, without having any claim to it, shall be compelled to pay twice the value (of the property claimed) as a fine, if he is unable to prove his claim.
6. When there is no evidence in a suit, the king shall consider the character of the parties and pass a decree himself, according to the equal, greater, or less (credibility of the parties).
7. When a purchase has been made before an assembly of merchants, the king's officers being aware of it (also), but from a vendor whose habitation is unknown; or when the purchaser has deceased :
8. The owner may recover his own property by
2. Ratn. p. 101; Col. Dig. II, 2, 2; Vîram. p. 374. 3. Ratn. p. 102; Col. Dig. II, 2, 30; Viv. p. 57. 4. Ratn. p. 101; Col. Dig. II, 2, 33 ; Vîram. p. 379. 5. Ratn. p. 106; Col. Dig. II, 2, 46. 6. Ratn. p. 108; Col. Dig. II, 2, 52. 7-9. Ratn. p. 109; Col. Dig. II, 2, 53, 54.
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