VYAVASTHAT DARPANA. 661 SECTION III.--ON II: REVOCABLE OR VALID GIFTS. 376 What is paid as wages (a), as the price of goods, as a nuptial gift or gratuity, for pleasure (b), as an acknowledgment to a benefactor (c), from affection. favour, or friendship (d), or as a present through regard to a worthy man (e) is irrevocable. I. Things once delivered on the following eight accounts cannot be resumed, as wages, for pleasure, as the price of the goods sold, as a nuptial gift to a bride (or her family,) as an acknowled.:”nt t , a b on foot or, as a present to a worthy man, from natural affection, or from friendship. VIviii Asp AT 1. Coleb. Dig. Vol. II. p. 174. II. They who know the law of gifts declare that things once delivered as the price of oods sold, is w if s, for pleus.tre, from natural a!!’. ‘tion, as an acknowledgment to a benefactor g - y * y l y y ;ویا p as a nuptial gro Ibid. Pp. 173. t to a bride (or her family,) and through regard, eiunnot be resumed. NA’. It Aida. (a) “As w.vres :” – is a recoupouee paid for work performed. Revenue is paid to the king as wages, or as the priec of the produce of land, because he has an interest in the soil. KATYAYANA describes w.lor's as follows : –“ Where a reward, offered for the recovery of property miss 1ոg, 174, 17 7, 17 S. is . received for discovering it, the gist is considered its (a payinent of) wages. 16i/. Pp. (b) “Eor pleasure:”—for the gratification of secing dancers and the like. What is given to a wise on the soonil in irriage of her lord, appears to be given for pleasure, for the former wife's consent, to her husband's espousal of another affords him pleasure. This and otlier cases may be understool according to circumstances: in till instances, pleasure, (and gratification,) may be supposed (to influence the gift.) I/id. pp. 174, 177. (c) “An acknowledgment to a benefactor:”—in return for benefits received : so Katyuyana :·—“ What is received for relieving a man from apprehension of danger, for saving him from actual peril, or for promoting a matter in which he was interested, is an acknowledgment to a henefactor. Ibid. lpp. 174, 178. (d) “Fron affection :”---towards sons and the rest; “from favour :”—to servants and the rest ; “frotn kłudness :” -to 1 friend. (e) “Worthy ’’--may be interpreted the estate of worthiness; what is given to a stranger endued therewith, though no benefit should have been received from him, (is a present to a worthy man,) or, a present to a worthy man may intend a gift for religious purposes, not mentioned by Ma'rada, because he had promised civil donations. (“In civil affairs, the law of gift is four-fold.”) Vyww arwhá Authority
