1. 1 Immediately after deposits, sale by another person than the owner has been declared by Bhrigu; listen attentively, I will expound that subject thoroughly.
3. 3 When the vendor has been produced and has been cast in the suit, (the judge) shall cause him to pay the price and a fine to the buyer and king respectively, and to restore the property to the owner.
4. 4 When the former owner comes forward and makes good his claim to the thing bought, the vendor shall be produced (by the purchaser); by doing so, the purchaser may clear himself.
5. 5 That greedy man who covets another man's property, without having any claim to it, shall be compelled to pay twice the value (of the property claimed) as a fine, if he is unable to prove his claim.
6. 6 When there is no evidence in a suit, the king shall consider the character of the parties and pass a decree himself, according to the equal, greater, or less (credibility of the parties).
7. 7 When a purchase has been made before an assembly of merchants, the king's officers being aware of it (also), but from a vendor whose habitation is unknown; or when the purchaser has deceased:
8. The owner may recover his own property by
11. That should be known as a fraudulent purchase which is made at an unreasonably low price, in the interior of a house, outside of the village, at night, in secret, or from a dishonest person.
334:1 XIII, 1. Ratn. p. 101; Col. Dig. II, 2, 1.
335:2 Ratn. p. 101; Col. Dig. II, 2, 2; Vîram. p. 374.
335:3 Ratn. p. 102; Col. Dig. II, 2, 30; Viv. p. 57.
335:4 Ratn. p. 101; Col. Dig. II, 2, 33; Vîram. p. 379.
335:5 Ratn. p. 106; Col. Dig. II, 2, 46.
335:6 Ratn. p. 108; Col. Dig. II, 2, 52.
335:7 7-9. Ratn. p. 109; Col. Dig. II, 2, 53, 54.
336:10 10, 11. Viv. p. 60; Vîram. p. 375; Col. Dig. II, 2, 57. In 10, Colebrooke has 'delivered by the owner in the presence of credible persons.' I have translated the reading of the Vîramitrodaya, 'previously announced to the king.' In 11, the clause 'in secret' is omitted in the Vîramitrodaya.
