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stranger, the owner of that field shall obtain the produce; none of the produce shall belong to the owner of the seed.
57. When a full-grown bull begets calves with the cows of another man, while roaming in his cowpen, the calves shall belong to him who owns the cows; in vain has the bull spent his strength.
58. When seed is sown in the field of another with the consent of the owner of that field, the offspring is considered to be the common property of the giver of the seed and the owner of the soil.
* 59. Grain cannot be produced without a field, nor can it be produced without seed. Therefore offspring belongs by right to both, the father as well as the mother.
*60. Nor is (legitimate) offspring produced, when a man meets a woman at another house than her own. That is declared adultery by those conversant with (the law on) this subject, unless she have come into (the man's) house of her own accord.
*61. A man is not punishable as an adulterer for having intercourse with the wife of one who has left his wife without her fault, or of one impotent or consumptive, if the woman herself consents to it.
57. Manu IX, 50, &c.
58. Manu IX, 53.
60. When a woman enters the house of her paramour of her own accord to have intercourse with him, there is no offence (on his part). Vivâdakintâmani, p. 112. The Nepalese MS. reads this paragraph differently: 'When a man has intercourse with a woman who has a protector living, at another man's house, it is termed adultery by those conversant with the subject, unless,' &c.
61. When a man has connexion with a married woman, forsaken by her husband, or whose husband is impotent or feeble, he is not punishable, in case the woman consents to it, even though he meet her at her own house. Vivâdakintâmani, p. 112.
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