Hindu Administrative Institutions c10.s6.17

c10.s6.17

✔ In the procedure followed, when a certain case is filed each of the contending parties was expected to present an affidavit before the registration officer containing particulars of the year and the place, the nature of the offence,⁴ etc. Other regulations were that excepting in criminal cases the defendant could not file a counterpetition against the plaintiff. Again two suits touching one and the same offence were disallowed.⁵ The *Agni Purāṇa* lays down thus: ‘a court should neither entertain nor hear a cross-case, without first deciding the original one, nor should it take up a case or a suit dismissed or rejected by another tribunal of competent authority.’⁶