History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.666

v4.c63.666

Yāj. II. 52, Kauṭ. (III. 11) provide⁷⁵⁹ that husband and wife, father and son and brothers cannot, as long as they are undivided, stand sureties for each other or be debtors and creditors of each other or be witnesses for each other. The Mit. has a long note on Yāj. II. 52. It shows that a wife may be divided as to estate from the husband if the latter desires (as laid down in Yāj. II. 114) and that in that case there may be the relation of debtor and creditor between them.