Hindu Administrative Institutions c10.s3.15

c10.s3.15

It would appear from this that a contract ought to satisfy all the technicalities of law so that the contract would be accepted as valid by the court in case it was presented to it. If not, (कर्ता and श्रद्धेय) both the proposing and the accepting parties, witnesses (श्रोता) and mediators (कारयिताः) were all liable to the penalty of a fine.¹ Contracts entered into, late during the night are invalid, but not those in the early portion of the night.² Diseased women, ascetics, old men, convicts, the deformed and such like are legally unfit to make contracts.³