[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896) › c8.145 # Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.145 Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.145 - **Language:** English ### [c8.145](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.145) Gifts cannot be prescribed. Gift once bestowed cannot be lost through usurpation by an outsider ; for this reason the property of a learned Brahman is reckoned among things that cannot become the property of another through prescription (M. 8, 149 etc.). - [Previous: c8.144](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.144) - [Next: c8.146](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.146) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8) ## Cites (1) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.8.149) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.145](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.145) · Pramāṇa