Studies in Ancient Hindu Polity (Based on the Arthashastra of Kautilya), Vol. I c14.s2.18

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¹ The author of the Dāyabhāga sets aside the rule by saying that sales of undivided shares are immoral but valid in law. ² Vide E. W. Hopkins's *India Old and New*: Land Tenure in India. ³ The word प्रसाध in Manu, VIII, 399, no doubt implies a right of first-purchase or pre-emption, as Monier Williams calls it, but it is claimed by Government, and in regard to moveables (आदावि); therefore it cannot be called pre-emption proper.