Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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8.201. He who obtains a chattel in the market before a number (of witnesses), acquires that chattel with a clear
legal title by purchase.
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8.202. If the original (seller) be not producible, (the buyer) being exculpated by a public sale, must be dismissed
by the king without punishment, but (the former owner) who lost the chattel shall receive it (back from the
buyer).
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8.203. One commodity mixed with another must not be sold (as pure), nor a bad one (as good), nor less (than
the proper quantity or weight), nor anything that is not at hand or that is concealed.
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8.204. If, after one damsel has been shown, another be given to the bridegroom, he may marry them both for the
same price; that Manu ordained.
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8.205. He who gives (a damsel in marriage), having first openly declared her blemishes, whether she be insane,
or afflicted with leprosy, or have lost her virginity, is not liable to punishment.
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8.206. If an officiating priest, chosen to perform a sacrifice, abandons his work, a share only (of the fee) in
proportion to the work (done) shall be given to him by those who work with him.
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8.207. But he who abandons his work after the sacrificial fees have been given, shall obtain his full share and
cause to be performed (what remains) by another (priest).
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8.208. But if (specific) fees are ordained for the several parts of a rite, shall he (who performs the part) receive
them, or shall they all share them?
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8.209. The Adhvaryu priest shall take the chariot, and the Brahman at the kindling of the fires (Agnyadhana) a
horse, the Hotri priest shall also take a horse, and the Udgatri the cart, (used) when (the Soma) is purchased.
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8.210. The (four) chief priests among all (the sixteen), who are entitled to one half, shall receive a moiety (of
the fee), the next (four) one half of that, the set entitled to a third share, one third, and those entitled to a fourth a
quarter.