CHAP. sister shall have a fourth part of a brother's allot IX. 6 'ment. 193. Even to the daughters of those daughters, it is fit, that something should be given, from the assets of their maternal grandmother, on the score of natural affection. 194. WHAT was given before the nuptial fire, what was given on the bridal procession, what was given in token of love, and what was received from a brother, a mother, or a father, are considered as the 'six-fold separate property of a married woman : 6 195. What she received after marriage from the family of her husband, and what her affectionate lord may have given her, shall be inherited, even if she die in his life-time, by her children. 196. It is ordained, that the property of a woman, 'married by the ceremonies called Bráhma, Daiva, Arsha, Gandharva, or Prájápatya, shall go to her husband, if she die without issue. 197. But her wealth given on the marriage called Asura, or on either of the two others, is ordained, on her death without issue, to become the property ' of her father and mother. 198. If a widow, whose husband had other wives of different classes, shall have received wealth at any time as a gift from her father, and shall die without without issue, it shall go to the daughter of the CHAP. Bráhmanì-wife, or to the issue of that daughter. 199. A woman should 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 assent. 200. Such ornamental apparel, as women wear during the lives of their husbands, the heirs of those husbands shall not divide among themselves: they, 'who divide it among themselves, fall deep into sin. 6 201. Eunuchs and outcasts, persons born blind or 202. But it is just, that the heir, who knows his 203. If the eunuch and the rest should at any pointed, that son and the issue of such, as have children, shall be capable of inheriting. 204. After the death of the father, if the eldest 'brother acquire wealth by his own efforts before par tition, a share of that acquisition shall go to the 6 younger IX. CHAP. IX. younger brothers, if they have made a due progress ' in learning; 205. And if all of them, being unlearned, acquire property before partition by their own labour, there shall be an equal division of that property without regard to the first-born; for it was not the wealth ' of their father: this rule is clearly settled. 6 6 206. Wealth, however, acquired by learning, belongs exclusively to any one of them, who acquired it so does any thing given by a friend, received on account of marriage, or presented as a mark of respect 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, some trifle being given him as a 'consideration, to prevent future strife. 208. What a brother has acquired by labour or skill, without using the patrimony, he shall not give up without his assent; for it was gained by his own 'exertion: 6 209. And if a son, by his own efforts, recover a 'debt or property unjustly detained, which could not be recovered before by his father, he shall not, un'less by his free will, put it into parcenary with his 'brethren, since in fact it was acquired by himself. 210. IF brethren, once divided and living again together as parceners, make a second partition, the • shares shares must in that case be equal; and the first- CHAP. 'born shall have no right of deduction. 211. Should the eldest or youngest of several bro'thers be deprived of his share by a civil death on his entrance into the fourth order, or should any one ' of them die, his vested interest in a share shall not wholly be lost; 6 6 212. But, if he leave neither son, nor wife, nor daughter, nor father, nor mother, his uterine brothers ' and sisters, and such brothers as were re-united after a separation, shall assemble and divide his • share equally. 213. Any eldest brother, who from avarice shall ' 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 those brothers, who are addicted to any vice, lose their title to the inheritance: the firstborn shall not appropriate it to himself, but shall 'give shares to the youngest, if they be not vicious. 215. If, among undivided brethren living with their 'father, there be a there be a common exertion for common gain, the father shall never make an unequal division among them, when they divide their families. 216. A son, born after a division in the lifetime of his father, shall alone inherit the patrimony, or shall have a share of it with the divided brethren, ' if they return and unite themselves with him. IX. 217. Or a son, dying childless and leaving no widow, the father and mother shall take the estate; and, the mother also 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 6 to a similar distribution. 219. Apparel, carriages, or riding-horses, and ornaments of ordinary value, which any of the heirs had used by consent before partition, dressed rice, water in a well or cistern, female slaves, family priests, or spiritual counsellors, and pasture ground for cattle, the wise have declared indivisible, and still to be used as before. 220. Thus have the laws of inheritance, and the rule for the conduct of sons (whether the son of the wife or others) been expounded to you in order learn at present the law concerning games of chance. 221. GAMING, either with inanimate or with ani• mated things, let the king exclude wholly from his realm: both those modes of play cause destruction to princes. 222. Such play with dice and the like, or by matches between rams and cocks, amounts to open • theft; |