CONTENTS.
Introduction to Nârada xi
Abbreviations xxiii
Nârada 1
The Author's Preface 1
Introduction. I. Legal Procedure 5
II. The Plaint 24
III. Courts of Justice 36
First Title of Law. The Law of Debt 41
1. Payment of a Debt 41
2. Valid and Invalid Transactions 49
3. Property 52
4. Means of Livelihood for a Brahman in Times of Distress 55
5. Modes of Proof 58
6. Lending Money at Interest 65
7. Usurers 68
8. Sureties 70
9. Pledges 72
10. Documents 75
11. Witnesses 79
12. Incompetent Witnesses 82
13. Six Cases where Witnesses are unnecessary . . 85
14. False Witnesses 86
15. Exhorting the Witnesses 91
16. Valid Evidence 95
17. Invalid Evidence 96
18. What has to be done in default of both Witnesses and Documents 96
19. Proof by Ordeal 100
20. The Ordeal by Balance 102
21. The Ordeal by Fire 108
