Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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X, 43. LAWFUI. OCCUPATIONS AND LIVELIHOOD.
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support themselves by personal labour have been explained,
33. And (those payable by) owners of ships and carts.
34. He must feed these (persons while they work for him).
35. The merchants shall (each) give (every month one) article of merchandise for less than the market value.
36. Those who find lost (property) the owner of which is not (known), shall announce it to the king.
37. The king shall cause it to be proclaimed (by the public crier), and (if the owner does not appear) hold it in his custody for a year.
38. Afterwards one-fourth (of the value goes) to the finder (and) the remainder to the king.
39. A (man becomes) owner by inheritance, purchase, partition, seizure, or finding.
40. Acceptance is for a Brâhmana an additional (mode of acquisition);
41. Conquest for a Kshatriya ; 42. Gain (by labour) for a Vaisya or Sudra. 43. Treasure-trove is the property of the king,
36–38. Manu VIII, 30–36; Yâgħavalkya II, 33, 173; Macnaghten, Mitaksharâ V, 1, 6.
39. Manu X, 115; Mayûkha IV, 1, 2; Colebrooke, Mitakshara I, 1, 8; III, Digest IV, 22. 'Partition, i.e. the division (of the estate) between brothers and other (coparceners); seizure, i. e. the appropriation before (others) of forest trees and other things which have no owner; finding, i.e. the appropriation of lost property the owner of which is unknown, such as treasuretrove.'-Haradatta.
43. Manu VIII, 38; Yâgħavalkya II, 34; Macnaghten, Mitâksharâ V, 1, 10.
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