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XI, 65.
THE LAW OF DEBT.
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60. When the time fixed (for payment) has elapsed, and the interest has ceased (on becoming equal to the principal), the debtor may either recover his loan or cause a new bond to be written in the form of compound interest.
61. As compound interest is taken on the doubled principal, so does the use of a pledge (become a new principal), the debt together with the interest being considered as the (new) principal.
62. This rule concerns an acknowledged (debt); but (a debtor) denying (his liability) shall be compelled to pay, on the debt being proved in a (judicial) assembly by a document or by witnesses.
63. (A debtor) claiming judicial investigation in a doubtful case, shall never be put under restraint (by the creditor). He who puts under restraint one not liable to such treatment, shall be fined according to law.
64. A debtor who makes a declaration in this form, What may be found to be justly due, that I will pay,' is termed 'one claiming judicial investigation.'
65. When there is a difference of opinion between the two parties regarding the nature (of the loan), or the number or the like, or the amount of) interest,
60. May. p. 110; Col. Dig. I, 6, 255. The new bond is to be one in which the interest is calculated on the interest added to the principal, i. e. on the doubled principal.
61. Ratn. p. 72; Col. Dig. I, 6, 259. The comparison here proposed relates to the case when a pledge for use has been accidentally destroyed, and a new bond is executed, in which the interest is calculated on the principal together with the lost usufruct.
62. Ratn. p. 75; May. p. 110; Col. Dig. I, 6, 160. 63. May. p. 110; Col. Dig. I, 6, 161. 63-65. Ratn. p. 25. 64. May. p. 110; Col. Dig. I, 6, 162.
65. Col. Dig. I, 6, 163. "The nature of the loan,' whether it be gold or silver, &c.; or the like,' such as the pledge given, &c. Ratn.
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