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44. WHO OWNS WHICH GARMENT ?
There were two men; one wore a cotton garment and the other a woollen. Once they went together to bathe in a river. They left their clothes on the bank and plunged in. After his bath the owner of the woollen garment took his friend's cotton clothes for his own and left. The other man went on asking him to return his clothes to him but he would not. They decided to refer the matter to the court of law. The judge ordered the hair on the heads of both of them to be combed carefully with separate combs. The judge examined the combs and discovered woollen fibres on the comb used for the hair of the man who wore woollen clothes and the judge decided that the accused was not the rightful owner of the cotton clothes. They were restored by the court's order to the rightful owner.
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