The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

38 VISH2VU. V, 155.
155. What has been destroyed through his want
of care, (he must make good) to the owner ;
156. Unless the damage have been caused by an
accident.
157. If an employer dismisses a workman (whom
he has hired) before the expiration of the term, he
shall pay him his entire wages ;
158. And (he shall pay) a hundred Pa/zas to the
king ;
159. Unless the workman have been at fault.
160. He who, having promised his daughter to
one suitor, gives her in marriage to another, shall
be punished as a thief;
161. Unless the (first) suitor have a blemish.
162. The same (punishment is ordained for a
suitor) who abandons a faultless girl;
163. (And for a husband who forsakes) a (blame-
less) wife.
164. He who buys unawares in open market the
property of another man (from one not authorised
to sell it) is not to blame;
165. (But) the owner shall recover his property.
166. If he has bought it in secret and under
its price, the purchaser and the vendor shall be
punished as thieves.
167. He who embezzles goods belonging to a
corporation (of Brahmazzas, and which have been
sent to them by the king or by private persons),
shall be banished.
168. He who violates their established rule
(shall) also (be banished).
169. He who retains a deposit shall restore the
commodity deposited to the owner, with interest.
170. The king shall punish him as a thief.