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XI, 2. VIOLATION OF A COMPACT; BOUNDARIES. 155
*6. Those who cause dissension among the
members of an association, shall undergo punish-
ment of a specially severe kind; because they
would prove extremely dangerous, like an (epi-
demic) disease, if they were allowed to go free.
* 7. Whenever a criminal act, opposed to the
dictates of morality, has been attempted, a king
desirous of prosperity shall redress it.

ELEVENTH TITLE OF LAW.
Boundary Disputes.
*1. Whenever (a decision has to be given) in
regard to landed property, whether it be a dike (or
bridge), a field, a boundary, a tilled piece of ground,
or a waste, it is termed a Boundary Dispute.
2. In all quarrels regarding landed property or
boundaries, the decision rests with the neighbours,
the inhabitants of the same town or village, the

6. ‘ An association,’ a guild of merchants or other corporation.
Viramitrodaya, p. 430.
7. When an act tainted with the sin of covetousness or another
crime, and opposed to the dictates of revealed and traditional law,
such as e.g. the prostitution of widows or other (virtuous females)
among heretics or other (sinful men), has been attempted, the king
must redress it, though it may have been practised for a long time.
Viramitrodaya, p. 431.
XI, 1. The meaning is as follows: ‘A dike,’ an embankment
for the purposes of irrigation. ‘ A field,’ a cultivated piece of
ground (under water). ‘A boundary,’a landmark. ‘A tilled piece
of ground,’ cultivated soil. ‘A waste,’ uncultivated ground. When
a decision has to be given in a quarrel with regard to any of these,
it is called a lawsuit concerning landed property, or Boundary
Dispute. Viramitrodaya, p. 451.
2. Manu VIII, 259; Yagnavalkya II, 150.