Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c10.131

c10.131

The duty of enforcing the judgment appears to have been entrusted to the lower officials mentioned in § 45,—execution and mutilation apart, which were entrusted to the hated Caṇḍāla (Vi. 16, 11 etc.), and in the Mṛcch. too the Rājapuruṣa appears for the former and the Caṇḍāla for the latter; yet however in civil cases self-help, although not permitted in the case of still disputed claims (Nār. I, 1, 46 etc.), is allowed in the largest measure in recog-