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NARADA.
title, a grant, a pledge, a (promise reduced to) writing,
a sale, or purchase : one who brings a claim in regard
to any one of these before the king is known as
defendant among those conversant with the rules
(of legal pleading).
* 39. Where the deposition of the witnesses has
been objected to, it becomes necessary first of all to
clear the witnesses from suspicion. When the wit-
nesses themselves have been cleared from suspicion,
he may undertake to remove the doubts which have
been raised against their deposition.
* 40. When a man has lost his cause through the
dishonesty of witnesses or judges, the cause may be
tried anew. When, however, a man has been cast
through his own conduct, the trial cannot be re-
newed.
41. One convicted by his own confession, one
myself. 4. This man raises the revenue of a certain village which
has been granted to myself. The grant relates to myself only.
5. This property has first been pledged to me by the debtor. How
can any one else enjoy it? 6. Why does not this man deliver this
chattel to me, which has been promised to me in writing ? 7. I
have purchased this commodity from him, and paid for it. He
does not make the commodity over to me.’—Read agna.
39. Where the defendant raises groundless objections against the
trustworthiness of the depositions of witnesses, he is liable to punish-
ment, like one who shuns the judicial investigation, and loses his
suit in consequence. After the witnesses have been cleared from
suspicion, their statements have to be examined in order to remove
what looks suspicious in them. A.
40. Those who have lost their cause, either through the state-
ments of their own witnesses, or through the decision of the judges,
may have their cause tried anew, according to a rule previously
laid down. If, however, a man has been convicted by his own
conduct, or if the witnesses adduced by him should turn out to
have been corrupted by him, the case cannot again be opened. A.
41. 1. One who pleads guilty; 2. one convicted by his own
NARADA.
title, a grant, a pledge, a (promise reduced to) writing,
a sale, or purchase : one who brings a claim in regard
to any one of these before the king is known as
defendant among those conversant with the rules
(of legal pleading).
* 39. Where the deposition of the witnesses has
been objected to, it becomes necessary first of all to
clear the witnesses from suspicion. When the wit-
nesses themselves have been cleared from suspicion,
he may undertake to remove the doubts which have
been raised against their deposition.
* 40. When a man has lost his cause through the
dishonesty of witnesses or judges, the cause may be
tried anew. When, however, a man has been cast
through his own conduct, the trial cannot be re-
newed.
41. One convicted by his own confession, one
myself. 4. This man raises the revenue of a certain village which
has been granted to myself. The grant relates to myself only.
5. This property has first been pledged to me by the debtor. How
can any one else enjoy it? 6. Why does not this man deliver this
chattel to me, which has been promised to me in writing ? 7. I
have purchased this commodity from him, and paid for it. He
does not make the commodity over to me.’—Read agna.
39. Where the defendant raises groundless objections against the
trustworthiness of the depositions of witnesses, he is liable to punish-
ment, like one who shuns the judicial investigation, and loses his
suit in consequence. After the witnesses have been cleared from
suspicion, their statements have to be examined in order to remove
what looks suspicious in them. A.
40. Those who have lost their cause, either through the state-
ments of their own witnesses, or through the decision of the judges,
may have their cause tried anew, according to a rule previously
laid down. If, however, a man has been convicted by his own
conduct, or if the witnesses adduced by him should turn out to
have been corrupted by him, the case cannot again be opened. A.
41. 1. One who pleads guilty; 2. one convicted by his own