History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.43

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*Dvyabhiyoga*—founded on two kinds of complaint viz. on suspicion or on fact. Nār. I. 27 says that a complaint on suspicion may be made against those who associate with men of evil repute (such as thieves, gamblers and dissolute persons) or it may be made on the ground that a certain person is really the thief because the thing stolen is found with him (this is *tattvābhiyoga*). This latter may take two forms i. e. the grievance of the plaintiff may be negative (e. g. the defendant took or borrowed a debt or article and does not return it) or positive (e. g. the defendant has dispossessed the plaintiff of land).³³⁸ Vide Mit. on Yāj. II. 5.