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VYAVASTHA”-DARPANA. 545 Should he be seized with a distemper, or unwarily go to a foreign land, a debt may be contracted by any person connected (with him ), to defray the expenses required for such a purpose, as estimated by five persons”. 227 A debt contracted for the sake of the family, by any person whomsoever connected with that family, must be paid by the head of the family, even if it were without his consent. _ I. A (debt of which payment has becn previously promiscd), or which (a) was contracted by any person for the sake of the family, must be paid by the housekeeper*. Vishnu. (a) “A &bt” must be here supplied. II. Whatever debt has been contracted for the sake of the family by a pupil, an apprentiec, a slave, a wise, or an agent, must be paid by the head of the family”. NARADA. • III. Bilitigu ordained, that a man shall pay a debt contracted in his remote absence, even without his assent, by his servant, his wife, his mother, his pupil, or his son : (provided it were contracted for the sake of the family.) KATYAYANA. Coleb. Dig. vol. I. p. 17. IV. A housekeeper shall discharge a debt contracted by his uncle, brother, son, wife, servant, pupil, or dependants, for the sake of the family (during. his absenee)*. VRurasp.Atr. The meaning therefore is, that, since the terms conclude in the plural number, which conveys the sense of “and the like,” (therefore ) maternal uncles and the rest, as well as other persons, are counprehended in the text”. & The principle of the law may be here stated : should a son competent to affairs be at hand, a debt, contracted by divided brethren or the like unauthorised by him, is not valid: but, in the case of parceners, if any one of five brothers forbids the contracting of the debt, and is able to support the family by other means, the debt contracted by another brother, is due by the borrower alone, and shall not be paid by him who opposed the debt. Yet, if the money (so) borrowed be used by him who opposed the debt, or by his dependant, being unable to supply sufficient funds for the support of the whole family, or of his imshediate dependants, it must be discharged by him?. v. A father-must-equally pay the debt of his son, contracted cither by his own appointment, or for the support of his family, or in a time of distress*. NARADA.

  • Coleb. Dig. vol. I. pp. 301-805.

Vyawastha * Authority