VYA VASTEHA”-ID AIR.PANA. - 525 In what circumstances is he considered as holding the assets 7 Is it only when he becomes the simmediate) heir of his ancestor, who has survived his own son and grandson? or (is he) likewise (considered as such ) when the son succeeded to the estate on the death of the proprietor, and after him the grandson; and on his demise the great grandson The answer is when the estate of the ancestor passes successively to his son, grandson, and great grandson, this last is not the (immediate) heir of his grandfather, but of his own father. But he who succeeds to the estate of another in right of his relation to him, is considered as holding assets of that person. Coleb. Dig. vol. III, pp. 87, 88. On failure of the father, who contracted the debt;-that is, if he die, or be secluded from the world, or go to a foreign country; .the debt must be paid by his sons with interest. It must be paid even by his son's son (but) without interest. So said VRISHAsPATI, VISHNU, JAGNYAv.ALKYA, sand KATYAYANA:—“The sons must pay the debt of their father, when proved, as if it were their own ; the son’s son must pay the debt of his grandfather, (but ) without interest : and his son (or the great grandson) shall not be compelled to discharge it.”—VRIHasrAT1. “If he, who contracted the debt, should die, or become a religious anchoret, or remain abroad for twenty years, that debt shall be discharged by his sons or grandsons, but not by remotor descendants against their will.”—VISHNU. “The father being gone to a foreign country, or deceased (naturally or civilly) or wholly involved in distress, the sons, or their sons, must pay the debt; but, if disputed, it must be proved by witnesses.”—JA anyNavalkya. “The rule shall be the same in regard to the debts of the grandfather, which have not been discharged by (other) grandsons, nor by his (own) sons: but a debt of the grandfather shall be paid by his grandsons without interest.”—KATYA*ANA. See Coleb. Dig. vol. I. pp. 278–320. - “Is the father be at home, but asilicted with a chronic disorder, or live in a foreign land, his debt shall be paid by his sons after a lapse of twenty years.”—KATYAYANA. “A debt of the father being proved, it must be discharged by his sons, even in his life time, if he were blind (or deaf) from his birth, or be degraded, insane, or afflicted with phthisis or leprosyo or other hopeless disorder.”—VRuh Aspati. Ibid. pp. 285, 286.
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