Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VISHNU.
VI, 40.
contracted by any person for the behoof of the family.
40. He who on receiving the whole amount of a loan, promises to repay the principal on the following day (or some other date near at hand), but from covetousness does not repay it, shall give interest for it.
41. Suretiship is ordained for appearance, for honesty, and for payment; the first two (sureties, and not their sons), must pay the debt on failure of their engagements, but even the sons of the last (may be compelled to pay it).
42. When there are several sureties (jointly bound), they shall pay their proportionate shares of the debt; but when they are bound severally, the payment shall be made (by any of them), as the creditor pleases.
43. If the surety, being harassed by the creditor, discharges the debt, the debtor shall pay twice as much to the surety.
VII.
1. Documents are of three kinds :
2. Attested by the king, or by (other) witnesses, or unattested.
3. A document is (said to be) attested by the king when it has been executed (in a court of judicature), on the king ordering it, by a scribe, his
42. In the first case the agreement is made in the following form, 'I shall pay so and so much to you, in the way agreed on. In the second case the sum is not divided between the sureties, and each of them liable for the whole debt therefore. (Nand.)
VII. 4. Y. II, 84-88. — 5-7. Y. II, 89. - 6. M.VIII, 168. — 12. Y. II, 92.
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