Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c10.14

c10.14

The assessors of the chief judge must be like himself respectable, pious, learned, truth-loving, impartial, incorruptible men of any one of the three higher castes (Vi. 3, 74 etc.). They are subordinated to the chief judge as well as to the king ; yet the Sabhyas too under certain circumstances have formed independent colleges of judges in which decisions were arrived at by a majority in votes or by unanimity. Thus according to Nār. I, 3, 17 the thorn of injustice may be removed only when the whole college of judges (sabhyo janaḥ sarvaḥ) are unanimous about the decision.