Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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9.41. Never therefore must a prudent well-trained man, who knows the Veda and its Angas and desires long life,
cohabit with another’s wife.
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9.42. With respect to this (matter), those acquainted with the past recite some stanzas, sung by Vayu (the Wind,
to show) that seed must not be sown by (any) man on that which belongs to another.
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9.43. As the arrow, shot by (a hunter) who afterwards hits a wounded (deer) in the wound (made by another), is
shot in vain, even so the seed, sown on what belongs to another, is quickly lost (to the sower).
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9.44. (Sages) who know the past call this earth (prithivi) even the wife of Prithu; they declare a field to belong
to him who cleared away the timber, and a deer to him who (first) wounded it.
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9.45. He only is a perfect man who consists (of three persons united), his wife, himself, and his offspring; thus
(says the Veda), and (learned) Brahmanas propound this (maxim) likewise, ’The husband is declared to be one
with the wife.’
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9.46. Neither by sale nor by repudiation is a wife released from her husband; such we know the law to be, which
the Lord of creatures (Pragapati) made of old.
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9.47. Once is the partition (of the inheritance) made, (once is) a maiden given in marriage, (and) once does (a
man) say,’ I will give;’ each of those three (acts is done) once only.
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9.48. As with cows, mares, female camels, slave-girls, buffalo-cows, she-goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter
(or his owner) who obtains the offspring, even thus (it is) with the wives of others.
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9.49. Those who, having no property in a field, but possessing seed-corn, sow it in another’s soil, do indeed not
receive the grain of the crop which may spring up.
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9.50. If (one man’s) bull were to beget a hundred calves on another man’s cows, they would belong to the owner
of the cows; in vain would the bull have spent his strength.