History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.523

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4. It appears that a period of twenty years was prescribed for avoiding a document on the ground of patent defects by one who had seen it and was affected by it. Vide Kāt. 298–300. Similarly when a thing is enjoyed for twenty years on the basis of a writing in the presence of an opponent able (to challege the enjoyment and the writing) then the writing becomes unassailable (even if the witnesses are all dead or there is no other document for comparison). Vide Kāt. (299)⁶⁵⁸.