Grihya Sutras

SR No.: 007685
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1886
Total Pages: 2642
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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XI, 54.
THE LAW OF DEBT.
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interest; but the son of a grandson need not pay it at all.
50. When a debt has been incurred, for the benefit of the household, by an uncle, brother, son, wife, slave, pupil, or dependant, it must be paid by the head of the family.
51. Sons shall not be made to pay (a debt incurred by their father) for spirituous liquor, for losses at play, for idle gifts, for promises made under the influence of love or wrath, or for suretyship, nor the balance of a fine or toll (liquidated in part by their father).
52. The liability for the debts devolves on the successor to the estate, when the son is involved in calamity; or on the taker of the widow, in default of a successor to the estate.
53. Debts contracted by the wives of distillers of spirituous liquor, hunters, washermen, herdsmen, barbers or the like persons, shall be paid by their protector ; they were contracted for the affairs of their husbands.
54. When (a debtor) has acknowledged a debt, it may be recovered from him by the expedients of friendly expostulation and the rest, by moral suasion,
50. Ratn. p. 54; Col. Dig. I, 5, 189; Viv. p. 39. 51. Ratn. p. 57; Col. Dig. I, 5, 201; May. p. 113. Regarding promises made under the influence of love or wrath, see Kâtyâyana X, 53, 54.
52. Ratn. p. 64; Col. Dig. I, 5, 174; May. p. 114; Viv. p. 37. 53. Vîram. p. 354 "Kâtyâyana'); Col. Dig. I, 5, 217; Ratn. p. 60. Protector' means husband. Ratn. 'Barbers,' nâpita, are referred to according to the reading of the Ratnakara. The Vîramitrodaya reads navika, sailors,' which reading is mentioned as a varia lectio in the Ratnakara. Colebrooke has shepherds.'
54. Col. Dig. I, 6, 244; May. p. 109.
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