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

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BA7HASPATI.

IX, 5-

5- Immovable property obtained by a division (of
the estate among co-heirs), or by purchase, or in-
herited from a father (or other ancestor), or presented
by the king, is acknowledged as one’s lawful pro-
perty ; it is lost by forbearance in the case of adverse
possession.
6. He who is holding possession (of an estate)
after having merely taken it, occupying it without
meeting with resistance, becomes its legitimate owner
thus ; and it is lost (to the owner) by such forbear-
ance.
7. He whose possession has been continuous from
the time of occupation, and has never been inter-
rupted for a period of thirty years, cannot be deprived
of such property.
8. That property which is publicly given by co-
heirs or others to a stranger who is enjoying it,
cannot be recovered afterwards by him (who is its
legitimate owner).
9. He who does not raise a protest when a
stranger is giving away (his) landed property in his
sight, cannot again recover that estate, even though
he be possessed of a written title to it.
10. Possession held by three generations produces
ownership for strangers, no doubt, when they are
related to one another in the degree of a SapiWa ;
it does not stand good in the case of Sakulyas.
11. A house, field, commodity or other property
having been held by another person than the owner,
5, 6. Col. Dig. V, 6, 384. 8, 9. Vfram. p. 209.
10-12. Col. Dig. V, 7, 396.
10-14. Viram. p. 221. SapWaship in this rule includes four
generations; the term Sakulya is used to denote more remote
relations.