Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.45

c8.45

In the laws about the settlement of boundary disputes principally the case of dispute between two neighbouring villages has been taken into consideration. In these cases boundary marks have to be searched and evidences are to be taken, and the evidence of ancient and respectable inhabitants who are settled (*maula*) there for a long time is regarded as decisive, although particularly at that time they may live in another place; next, the evidence of the neighbours is taken or generally of those who often have to stop in the neighbourhood of the disputed boundaries, be it for ploughing or as cowherds, fowlers, snake-catchers, hunters,