History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v1.c6.s24.5

v1.c6.s24.5

The order in which the topics of law appeared in Bṛhaspati can be settled with tolerable certainty from the quotations in Aparārka, Vivādaratnākara, Vīramitrodaya and others works. It was as follows:—the four stages of a law-suit, proof (kriyā, human of three sorts and divine ), witnesses ( of 12 kinds ), documents (ten kinds), bhukti ( possession ), ordeals ( nine ), 18 titles, ṛṇādāna, nikṣepa, asvāmivikraya, saṁbhūya-samutthāna, dattāpradānika, abhyupetyāśuśrūṣā, vetanasya-anapākarma, svāmipālavivāda, saṁvid-vyatikrama, vikriyāsaṁpradāna, sīmāvivāda, pāruṣya ( of two kinds ), sāhasa ( of three kinds ), strīsaṁgrahaṇa, strīpuṁdharma, vibhāga, dyūta, samāhvaya, prakīrṇaka ( otherwise called ‘ nṛpāśraya vyavahāra, ’ wrongs for which proceedings are set on foot by the king ).