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

XIII, 8. SALE WITHOUT OWNERSHIP. 335
2. An open deposit, a bailment for delivery
(Anvahita), a Nyasa (sealed) deposit, stolen pro-
perty, a pledge, or what has been borrowed for use ;
when any one of these articles has been sold in
secret by a man, he is declared a person different
from the owner (asvamin).
3. When the vendor has been produced and has
been cast in the suit, (the judge) shall cause him to
pay the price and a fine to the buyer and king re-
spectively, and to restore the property to the owner.
4. When the former owner comes forward and
makes good his claim to the thing bought, the
vendor shall be produced (by the purchaser); by
doing so, the purchaser may clear himself.
5. That greedy man who covets another man’s
property, without having any claim to it, shall be
compelled to pay twice the value (of the property
claimed) as a fine, if he is unable to prove his claim.
6. When there is no evidence in a suit, the king
shall consider the character of the parties and pass
a decree himself, according to the equal, greater, or
less (credibility of the parties).
7. When a purchase has been made before an
assembly of merchants, the king’s officers being
aware of it (also), but from a vendor whose habita-
tion is unknown; or when the purchaser has
deceased :
8. The owner may recover his own property by

2. Ratn. p. 101; Col. Dig. II, 2, 2 ; Viram. p. 374.
3. Ratn. p. 102 ; Col. Dig. II, 2, 30; Viv. p. 57.
4. Ratn. p. 101; Col. Dig. II, 2, 33; Viram. p. 379.
5. Ratn. p. 106 ; Col. Dig. II, 2, 46.
6. Ratn. p. 108; Col. Dig. II, 2, 52.
7-9. Ratn. p. 109; Col. Dig. II, 2, 53, 54.