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