[defrauded] purchaser the value from the seller.

171. [A claim to] property [as] lost,[265] is to be supported by proof
of acquisition[266] or of user: [the claimant,] if he fail, shall pay
to the monarch one-fifth of the value [of the property] as a fine.

172. Whoever takes [back] from the hand of a stranger what has been
stolen or lost [from himself] without informing the monarch, shall pay
a fine of ninety six _panas_.[267]

173. When lost or stolen property has been recovered by customs
officers or by the local police, the owner may claim it until one year
has elapsed;[268] after that time it goes to the monarch.

174. If it be a single-hoofed animal, the owner shall pay four
_panas_; if a man, five _panas_; if a buffalo, or a camel, or a
cow, two _panas_; if a goat or a sheep, the fourth part of a
_pana_.[269]

175.[270]Any property, other than women and children, may be given
away, if it be no detriment to the family--but not the whole property,
where there are children; nor any portion which has been already
promised to another.

176. The acceptance [of a gift] should be public, especially of
immovable property. Whatever may be lawfully given and is contracted
to be given, shall not, after gift, be resumed.

177. The time given for trial [on purchase] of seed, is ten days;[271]
of iron, one day; of beasts of burden, five days; of precious stones,
seven days; of women,[272] one month; of milch-cows, three days; of
men,[272] half a month.

178. By the action of fire, gold is not lessened in quantity: one
hundred _palas_[273] of silver thereby lose two _palas_; of tin, one
hundred _palas_ lose eight; lead and copper, out of one hundred
_palas_, lose five; iron, of one hundred _palas_, loses ten.[274]

179. One hundred _palas_ of wool or cotton when worked[275] are
increased by ten _palas_; if the thread be of middling fineness, the
increase is five _palas_; if very fine, three _palas._

180. In figured textures and in those made of hair, the loss is
estimated at one thirtieth part. In a texture of silk or of the bark
of trees, there is neither loss nor increase.

181. Whenever loss has been sustained, the artisan shall be
imperatively required to pay what competent judges award, after they
shall have investigated [circumstances, of] place, of time, of the
mode of using [the material], and its quality of strength or
lightness.[276]

182. One made a slave by compulsion, and one sold[277] [into slaver