Contents
CONTENTS.
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| INTRODUCTION TO NÂRADA | |
| ABBREVIATIONS | |
| NÂRADA | |
| THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE | |
| INTRODUCTION. I. Legal Procedure | |
| II. The Plaint | |
| III. Courts of Justice | |
| FIRST TITLE OF LAW. The Law of Debt | |
| 1. Payment of a Debt | |
| 2. Valid and Invalid Transactions | |
| 3. Property | |
| 4. Means of Livelihood for a Brahman in Times of Distress | |
| 5. Modes of Proof | |
| 6. Lending Money at Interest | |
| 7. Usurers | |
| 8. Sureties | |
| 9. Pledges | |
| 10. Documents | |
| 11. Witnesses | |
| 12. Incompetent Witnesses | |
| 13. Six Cases where Witnesses are unnecessary | |
| 14. False Witnesses | |
| 15. Exhorting the Witnesses | |
| 16. Valid Evidence | |
| 17. Invalid Evidence | |
| 18. What has to be done in default of both Witnesses and Documents | |
| 19. Proof by Ordeal | |
| 20. The Ordeal by Balance | |
| 21. The Ordeal by Fire | |
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| 22. The Ordeal by Water | |
| 23. The Ordeal by Poison | |
| 24. The Ordeal by Sacred Libation | |
| 25. The Rice Ordeal | |
| 26. The Ordeal of the Hot Piece of Gold | |
| SECOND TITLE OF LAW. Deposits | |
| THIRD TITLE OF LAW. Partnership | |
| FOURTH TITLE OF LAW. Resumption of Gift | |
| FIFTH TITLE OF LAW. Breach of a Contract of Service | |
| SIXTH TITLE OF LAW. Non-payment of Wages | |
| SEVENTH TITLE OF LAW. Sales Effected by Another than the Rightful Owner | |
| EIGHTH TITLE OF Law. Non-delivery of a Sold Chattel | |
| NINTH TITLE OF LAW. Rescission of Purchase | |
| TENTH TITLE OF LAW. Transgression of a Compact | |
| ELEVENTH TITLE OF LAW. Boundary Disputes | |
| TWELFTH TITLE OF LAW. The Mutual Duties of Husband and Wife | |
| THIRTEENTH TITLE OF LAW. The Law of Inheritance | |
| FOURTEENTH TITLE OF LAW. Heinous Offences | |
| FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH TITLES OF LAW. Abuse and Assault | |
| SEVENTEENTH TITLE OF LAW. Games | |
| EIGHTEENTH TITLE OF LAW. Miscellaneous | |
| APPENDIX. Theft | |
| QUOTATIONS FROM NÂRADA | |
| I. Judicial Procedure | |
| II. The Plaint | |
| III. The Answer | |
| IV. Writings and Possession | |
| V. Witnesses | |
| VI. Ordeals | |
| VII. Miscellaneous Laws | |
| INTRODUCTION TO THE FRAGMENTS OF BRIHASPATI | |
| BRIHASPATI | |
| I. Constitution of a Court of Justice | |
| II. General Rules of Procedure | |
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| III. The Plaint | |
| IV. The Answer | |
| V. The Trial | |
| VI. The Judgment | |
| VII. The Witnesses | |
| VIII. Documents | |
| IX. Possession | |
| X. Ordeals | |
| XI. The Law of Debt | |
| XII. Deposits | |
| XIII. Sale without Ownership | |
| XIV. Concerns of a Partnership | |
| XV. Resumption of Gifts | |
| XVI. Master and Servant | |
| XVII. Violation of Agreements | |
| XVIII. Rescission of Purchase and Sale | |
| XIX. Boundary Disputes | |
| XX. Defamation | |
| XXI. Assault | |
| XXII. Robbery and Violence | |
| XXIII. Adultery | |
| XXIV. Duties of Man and Wife | |
| XXV. The Law of Inheritance | |
| XXVI. Gambling and Betting | |
| XXVII. Miscellaneous | |
| ADDENDA | |
| Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East | 393 |