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NARADA.
* 8. These are called the defects of a plaint: (1) if it relates to a different subject; (2) if it is unmeaning; (3) if the amount (of the sum claimed) has not been properly stated; (4) if it is wanting in propriety; (5) if the writing is deficient; (6) or redundant; (7) if it has been damaged.
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9. By whomsoever a claim is raised, whatever and from whomsoever it may have been claimed: from that very person must the claimant receive that very thing, and it must not be (claimed) mutually, or (claimed) from a stranger. Thus 'a claim relating to a different subject' may be of three kinds.
10. Thy friend here has thought in his mind, that I am his enemy. On account of this great intolerance I have impeached thee here.
II. If he omits to state the amount of the thing (claimed), and forgets to aim at brevity (?): this fault of a plaint is called omission of the amount (claimed), and it should be avoided.
12. Let him avoid improper statements in the plaint (e. g. an accusation which is raised) by a plurality of persons against one single-handed; or
8. A. does not explain the rather obscure terms occurring in several of the following paragraphs. He confines himself to stating that they contain an accurate definition of the 'seven defects of a plaint,' as enumerated in paragraph 8, to which the defect described in paragraphs 15, 16 has to be added as an eighth.
9. The three kinds of 'a claim relating to a different subject' appear, therefore, to be these: where it proceeds from a different person than the creditor; where the amount of the sum claimed has not been stated correctly; and where the plaint has been addressed to a wrong person.
10. This is an instance of an unmeaning or frivolous accusation. A.
11. The reading of this paragraph is uncertain.
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