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CHAPTER XXI, 7-XXII, 3.
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has to bring back to its owners; such as that which the frontier people may take away from foreigners, that which the judge may take away from thieves, and the share which he may take away from any one not interfering with thieves. 14. And about protectors and defenders of a thief, and also many other legal decisions as regards theft.
CHAPTER XXII.
Ganaba-sar-nigad Nask. 1. The second section is miscellaneous (hamdådako): about the authority for the enquiry (kh vâst-radakih) of a father into the sin of a grown-up son, when unaware of the sin of his son at the time it is committed ; that of a son into that of a father, and of others grown-up, as to one another, when they are not abettors of the sin; and that of a husband into the sin of a wife, when not and when ? co-operating and unrestraining. 2. About arrival at the period for the teaching of children by a guardian or father, and the mode of his teaching; the period at which the sin of a child has reached a beginning, the extent of the sin of childhood, the retribution in childhood, and that also at maturity; the sin due to not teaching a child who is to be taught, and whatever is on the same subject.
3. About the freedom from slaughter which is to
1 Av. asterethwãn. The share being a bribe for purchasing non-interference. In each case the property is to be restored to its original owner who had been robbed by the foreigners or thieves.
. Perhaps the repetition of the word amat, and when' is a blunder of the copyist.
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