{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe33/sbe3301.htm","path":"hin/sbe33/sbe3301.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe33/sbe3301.htm","text":"The Minor Law Books (SBE33), by Julius Jolly, [1889]\n| | PAGE | \n| INTRODUCTION TO N\u00c2RADA | xi | \n| ABBREVIATIONS | xxiii | \n| N\u00c2RADA | 1 | \n| THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE | 1 | \n| INTRODUCTION. I. Legal Procedure | 5 | \n| II. The Plaint | 14 | \n| III. Courts of Justice | 36 | \n| FIRST TITLE OF LAW. The Law of Debt | 41 | \n| 1. Payment of a Debt | 41 | \n| 2. Valid and Invalid Transactions | 49 | \n| 3. Property | 52 | \n| 4. Means of Livelihood for a Brahman in Times of Distress | 55 | \n| 5. Modes of Proof | 58 | \n| 6. Lending Money at Interest | 65 | \n| 7. Usurers | 68 | \n| 8. Sureties | 70 | \n| 9. Pledges | 72 | \n| 10. Documents | 75 | \n| 11. Witnesses | 79 | \n| 12. Incompetent Witnesses | 82 | \n| 13. Six Cases where Witnesses are unnecessary | 85 | \n| 14. False Witnesses | 86 | \n| 15. Exhorting the Witnesses | 91 | \n| 16. Valid Evidence | 95 | \n| 17. Invalid Evidence | 96 | \n| 18. What has to be done in default of both Witnesses and Documents | 96 | \n| 19. Proof by Ordeal | 100 | \n| 20. The Ordeal by Balance | 102 | \n| 21. The Ordeal by Fire | 108 | \n| p. viii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| 22. The Ordeal by Water | 111 | \n| 23. The Ordeal by Poison | 114 | \n| 24. The Ordeal by Sacred Libation | 116 | \n| 25. The Rice Ordeal | 118 | \n| 26. The Ordeal of the Hot Piece of Gold | 119 | \n| SECOND TITLE OF LAW. Deposits | 120 | \n| THIRD TITLE OF LAW. Partnership | 124 | \n| FOURTH TITLE OF LAW. Resumption of Gift | 128 | \n| FIFTH TITLE OF LAW. Breach of a Contract of Service | 131 | \n| SIXTH TITLE OF LAW. Non-payment of Wages | 139 | \n| SEVENTH TITLE OF LAW. Sales Effected by Another than the Rightful Owner | 144 | \n| EIGHTH TITLE OF Law. Non-delivery of a Sold Chattel | 146 | \n| NINTH TITLE OF LAW. Rescission of Purchase | 149 | \n| TENTH TITLE OF LAW. Transgression of a Compact | 153 | \n| ELEVENTH TITLE OF LAW. Boundary Disputes | 155 | \n| TWELFTH TITLE OF LAW. The Mutual Duties of Husband and Wife | 164 | \n| THIRTEENTH TITLE OF LAW. The Law of Inheritance | 188 | \n| FOURTEENTH TITLE OF LAW. Heinous Offences | 202 | \n| FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH TITLES OF LAW. Abuse and Assault | 207 | \n| SEVENTEENTH TITLE OF LAW. Games | 212 | \n| EIGHTEENTH TITLE OF LAW. Miscellaneous | 214 | \n| APPENDIX. Theft | 223 | \n| QUOTATIONS FROM N\u00c2RADA | 233 | \n| I. Judicial Procedure | 233 | \n| II. The Plaint | 235 | \n| III. The Answer | 239 | \n| IV. Writings and Possession | 242 | \n| V. Witnesses | 244 | \n| VI. Ordeals | 247 | \n| VII. Miscellaneous Laws | 263 | \n| INTRODUCTION TO THE FRAGMENTS OF BRIHASPATI | 271 | \n| BRIHASPATI | 277 | \n| I. Constitution of a Court of Justice | 277 | \n| II. General Rules of Procedure | 282 | \n| p. ix | | \n| | PAGE | \n| III. The Plaint | 289 | \n| IV. The Answer | 292 | \n| V. The Trial | 294 | \n| VI. The Judgment | 297 | \n| VII. The Witnesses | 299 | \n| VIII. Documents | 304 | \n| IX. Possession | 309 | \n| X. Ordeals | 315 | \n| XI. The Law of Debt | 319 | \n| XII. Deposits | 332 | \n| XIII. Sale without Ownership | 334 | \n| XIV. Concerns of a Partnership | 336 | \n| XV. Resumption of Gifts | 341 | \n| XVI. Master and Servant | 343 | \n| XVII. Violation of Agreements | 346 | \n| XVIII. Rescission of Purchase and Sale | 350 | \n| XIX. Boundary Disputes | 351 | \n| XX. Defamation | 355 | \n| XXI. Assault | 357 | \n| XXII. Robbery and Violence | 359 | \n| XXIII. Adultery | 365 | \n| XXIV. Duties of Man and Wife | 367 | \n| XXV. The Law of Inheritance | 369 | \n| XXVI. Gambling and Betting | 385 | \n| XXVII. Miscellaneous | 386 | \n| ADDENDA | 391 | \n| Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East | 393 |","title":"The Minor Law Books (SBE33): Contents","type":"page"}