189. The property of a Bráhmen shall never be taken as an escheat by the king; this is a fixed law: but the wealth of the other claffes, on failure of all heirs, the king may take.

up a

190. If the widow of a man, who died without a fon, raise fon to him by one of his kinfmen, let her deliver to that son, at his full age the collected estate of the deceased, whatever it be.

191. If two fons, begotten by two fucceffive husbands, who are • both dead, contend for their property, then in the hands of their mother, let each take, exclusively of the other, his own father's • estate.

192. ON the death of the mother, let all the uterine brothers and the uterine fifters, if unmarried, equally divide the maternal estate: • each married fifter fhall have a fourth part of a brother's allotment.

6

193. Even to the daughters of those daughters, it is fit, that something should be given, from the affets of their maternal grandmother, on the fcore of natural affection.

194. WHAT was given before the nuptial fire, what was given on the bridal proceffion, what was given in token of love, and what was received from a brother, a mother, or a father, are confidered as the fixfold feparate property of a married woman:

195.

• What she received after marriage from the family of her hufband, and what her affectionate lord may have given her, shall be in•herited, even if she die in his lifetime, by her children.

196. It

6

6

196. It is ordained, that the property of a woman, married by the ⚫ ceremonies called Bráhma, Daiva, Arfha, Gándharva, or Prájápatya, • fhall go to her husband, if she die without issue.

197. But her wealth given on the marriage called Afura, or on ' either of the two others, is ordained, on her death without iffue, to ⚫ become the property of her father and mother.

198. If a widow, whofe husband had other wives of different claffes, 'fhall have received wealth at any time as a gift from her father, and

fhall die without iffue, it fhall go to the daughter of the Bráhmanì

' wife, or to the iffue of that daughter.

199. A woman fhould never make a hoard from the goods of her kindred, which are common to her and many; or even from the property of her lord, without his affent.

200. Such ornamental apparel, as women wear during the lives of ⚫ their husbands, the heirs of thofe husbands shall not divide among themselves: they, who divide it among themfelves, fall deep into 'fin.

201.Eunuchs and outcasts, perfons born blind or deaf, madmen, idiots, the dumb, and fuch as have loft the use of a limb, are excluded • from a share of the heritage;

202. But it is just, that the heir, who knows his duty, should give

• all of them food and raiment for life without ftint, according to the

beft of his power: he, who gives them nothing, finks affuredly to a

region of punishment.

203. If

203. If the eunuch and the reft should at any time defire to marry, • and if the wife of the eunuch should raise up a fon to him by a man legally appointed, that fon and the iffue of fuch, as have children, fhall be capable of inheriting.

6

6

204. After the death of the father, if the eldest brother acquire wealth by his own efforts before partition, a share of that acquisition shall go to the younger brothers, if they have made a due progrefs in learning;

205. And if all of them, being unlearned, acquire property before partition by their own labour, there fhall be an equal divifion of that property without regard to the first born; for it was not the wealth of 'their father: this rule is clearly settled.

206. Wealth, however, acquired by learning, belongs exclufively to any one of them, who acquired it; fo does any thing given by a 'friend, received on account of marriage, or prefented as a mark of refpect to a guest.

207.' If

any one of the brethren has a competence from his own ⚫ occupation, and wants not the property of his father, he may debar • himself from his own share, fome trifle being given him as a confi• deration, to prevent future ftrife.

208. What a brother has acquired by labour or skill, without using the patrimony, he fhall not give up without his affent; for it was gained by his own exertion:

209. And if a fon, by his own efforts, recover a debt or property unjustly detained, which could not be recovered before by his father,

• he

6

•he shall not, unless by his free will, put it into parcenary with his • brethren, fince in fact it was acquired by himself.

210. IF brethren, once divided and living again together as parce⚫ners, make a fecond partition, the shares must in that cafe be equal; ' and the first born shall have no right of deduction.

211. Should the eldest or youngest of several brothers be deprived of his fhare by a civil death on his entrance into the fourth order, or 'fhould any one of them die, his vested interest in a fhare fhall not wholly be loft;

212. But, if he leave neither fon, nor wife, nor daughter, nor father, nor • mother, his uterine brothers and fifters, and fuch brothers as were re⚫ united after a feparation, fhall affemble and divide his share equally.

213. Any eldest brother, who from avarice fhall defraud his younger brother, shall forfeit the honours of his primogeniture, be deprived of his own share, and pay a fine to the king.

214. All thofe brothers, who are addicted to any vice, lofe their ' title to the inheritance: the first born shall not appropriate it to him'felf, but shall give shares to the youngest, if they be not vitious.

215. If, among undivided brethren living with their father, there ⚫ be a common exertion for common gain, the father fhall never make ⚫ an unequal divifion among them, when they divide their families.

216. A fon, born after a divifion in the lifetime of his father, fhall alone inherit the patrimony, or shall have a share of it with the di⚫vided brethren, if they return and unite themselves with him..

" 217. OF

6

6

217. Or a fon, dying childless and leaving no widow, the father and mother fhall take the eftate; and, the mother alfo being dead, the paternal grandfather and grandmother shall take the heritage on failure of brothers and nephews.

218.

When all the debts and wealth have been justly distributed according to law, any property, that may afterwards be discovered, • shall be subject to a fimilar distribution.

219. Apparel, carriages, or riding horfes, and ornaments of ordinary • value, which any of the heirs had used by confent before partition, dressed rice, water in a well or ciftern, female flaves, family priefts, or fpiri'tual counsellors, and pafture ground for cattle, the wife have declared indivifible, and fill to be used as before.

220.

Thus have the laws of inheritance, and the rule for the conduct of fons (whether the son of the wife or others) been expound⚫ed to you in order: learn at prefent the law concerning games

• chance.

221.

of

GAMING, either with inanimate or with animated things, let the king exclude wholly from his realm: both those modes of play • caufe deftruction to princes.

222. 'Such play with dice and the like, or by matches between rams ⚫ and cocks, amounts to open theft; and the king must ever be vigilant in fuppreffing both modes of play:

223. Gaming with lifeless things is known among men by the • name of dyúta; but famáhwaya fignifies a match between living crea