Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c14.60

c14.60

§ 49. The President was also the highest judicial authority. There was a Judicial Minister who could be even an outsider, a paid officer.⁴ Liberty of the citizen was most jealously guarded. A citizen could not be held guilty unless he was considered so by the Senāpati, the Upa-rājā and the Rājā, separately and without dissent.