[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) › c8.54 # Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.54 Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.54 - **Language:** English ### [c8.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.54) The proprietors of two adjacent houses must be careful to have due consideration for each other; thus it is forbidden to obstruct or injure a veranda, window, drainage pipe or a shop etc. or to construct a privy, a fire-place, a receptacle for leavings or to dig a pit or to open a window or to drive a drainage pipe in the immediate vicinity of the neighbouring houses (Kāty. 18, 20 f.; ² Bṛh. - [Previous: c8.53](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.53) - [Next: c8.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.55) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8) ## Cites (1) - [Kātyāyanasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.katyayana) — Kātyāyana (smṛtikāra), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c8.54) · Pramāṇa