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TITLES OF LAW.
his dutiful officer, the assessors of the court, the lawbook, the accountant and scribe, gold, fire, and water; therefore it said to have eight members.
*16. Recovery of a debt, deposits, partnership, resumption of gift, breach of a contract of service,
*17. Non-payment of wages, sales effected by another than the rightful owner, non-delivery of a sold chattel, rescission of purchase,
*18. Transgression of a compact, boundary disputes, the mutual duties of husband and wife, law of inheritance, heinous offences,
*19. Abuse, assault, games, and miscellaneous, these are (the eighteen titles of law) on account of which (judicial procedure) is said to have eighteen topics.
* 20. Their branches amount to one hundred and
books' are meant the compositions of Manu, Nârada, Visvarûpa, and others.
16-19. Manu VIII, 4-8.
20-25. The 132 divisions of the eighteen titles of law are stated as follows by Asahâya:
1. Recovery of a debt.
1. Which debts have to be paid, and which not, &c.; 2. debts (in general); 3. property; 4. means of livelihood of a Brahman in times of distress; 5. modes of proof; 6. lending money at interest; 7. usurers; 8. sureties; 9. pledges; 10. documents; 11. incompetent witnesses; 12. witnesses for the plaintiff; 13. witnesses for the defendant; 14. six cases where witnesses are unnecessary; 15. validity of testimony, how long retained; 16. false witnesses; 17. exhorting the witnesses; 18. valid evidence; 19. invalid evidence; 20. what has to be done, where both witnesses and documents are wanting; 21. ordeal by balance; 22. ordeal by fire; 23. ordeal by water; 24. ordeal by poison; 25. ordeal by sacred libation.
2. Deposits.
1. Nyâsa (common deposits); 2. aupanidhika (sealed deposits);
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