Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.209

c8.209

by the ordeal of the sacred libation, are resorted to in many cases and play an important role specially in the deposition of witnesses at the court. Witnesses should preferably be called to be present at transactions of every kind, such as loans, deposits, purchase and sale, particularly of immovables, pledges and also on the occasion of pious bequests, documentary authentication, repudiation of a married wife, etc. The witnesses also may be invited secretly so that from some place of concealment they may overhear a verbal agreement, for which they may afterwards also give a written document (Nār. 1, 150).