The minor law books: The minor law books (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889)

40 NARADA.
judge must extract the dart (of iniquity) from the
lawsuit.
* 17. When the whole aggregate of the members
of a judicial assembly declare, ‘ This is right,’ the
lawsuit loses the dart, otherwise the dart remains
in it.
18. That is not a judicial assembly where there
are no elders. They are not elders who do not pass
a just sentence. That is not a just sentence in
which there is no truth. That is not truth which is
vitiated by error.

iniquity which has entered a lawsuit, by employing the artful expe-
dients of judicial investigation. A.
17. ‘The members of a judicial assembly’ are those who have
come together for the trial of a cause.' A.
18. This paragraph, in the original, is a verse composed in the
Trish/ubh metre, and has the look of an old versus memorialis.
Though the author of the Narada-smrz’ti has incorporated it in his
work, its contents do not quite fit in with his own ideas regarding
the constitution of a judicial assembly, and the prominent place
which he assigns to the chief judge of the king.