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47. About plaints as to the value of a lamb?, or a sheep, or a beast of burden (stôr), or a human being (virôk)*; either when the plaintiffs are one, or two, or three, or four, or many; how one has to summon the defendant, and how much time there is. 48. About when the controversy (han-bêshinih) is as to theft (dugó), and the confession as to plunder (avor); or the controversy is as to plunder, and the confession as to theft; and when the controversy is as to injuring the existence', and the confession as to minor injury; or the controversy is as to minor injury, and the confession as to injuring the existence; and when the controversy is as to theft and plunder, and the confession as to injuring the existence and minor injury; or the controversy is as to injuring the existence and minor injury, and the confession as to theft and plunder. 49. And when the controversy is about so much, and the confession about so much of a different kind; when the controversy is about so much, and the confession about more of a different kind; when the controversy is about so much, and the confession about less of a different kind; when the controversy is about so much, and the confession as to more of the same kind; and whatever is on the same subject.
See Chap. XVII, 6. * Pahl. Av. asperenó (=Pahl. anaspôrîk) imperfect, immature;' an epithet for a lamb or kid.
• Pahl. a nở môyê (Av. anumaya), probably 'bleater,' an epithet for a sheep or goat. • These four grades of value are mentioned in Vend. IV, 48.
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