History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.454

v4.c63.454

and 234 prescribe that when officers appointed to administer justice cause loss to litigants by taking bribes, the king should deprive them of all their wealth and when the *amātyas* (ministers) or chief justice disposes of a matter wrongly (but without being bribed), the king should himself decide the matter correctly and should impose on the *amātyas* or chief justice a fine of 1000 *paṇas*.