or the detention]; and should the buyer be
from foreign parts, then, the foreign profit [shall be added].

255. There may be a re-sale of goods sold, if the original buyer will
not receive them. If loss arise from misconduct of the buyer, he shall
bear it.

256. Whatever damage may befal goods by [act of] the monarch, or by
accident, shall be the loss of the seller,[345] where he has failed to
make delivery on demand.

257. If a person re-sell that which has been sold to another, or sell,
as sound, a damaged article; [in either case] the fine shall be double
the value [of the article sold].

258. A trader who makes a purchase in ignorance of the rise and fall
of prices, must not recede from his bargain; if he do, he shall be
fined a sixth [of the price].

259. Traders who carry on business jointly, for profit, shall share
the profits and losses, either in proportion to the capital [brought
in by each], or according to the contract between them.[346]

260. [A joint trader] who occasions loss [to the partnership] by
[engaging in] something which his partner has either prohibited or not
sanctioned, or by any negligence, shall make it good: if [on the other
hand by his personal exertion] he preserve anything [of the
partnership property] from loss, he shall have the tenth of it.[347]

261. The monarch, for fixing the prices, should receive a duty of a
twentieth.[348]

If an article of which the sale is prohibited, or one fitting for the
monarch[349] [to possess], be sold [without the royal license], it
shall be forfeited to the Crown.[350]

262. Whoever declares false weight, or avoids the place where custom
is levied, shall be made to pay eight-fold; so he who fraudulently
buys or sells.[351]

263. A ferryman levying [toll as though for] land-duties, shall be
made to pay a fine of ten _panas_.[352]

The same fine is ordained for omission to send invitations to
brahmans of the neighbourhood.[353]

264. On the death of one departed to a foreign country, his male
offspring, his maternal kindred, or those more remotely related, shall
take the property: in their default, the monarch [succeeds].

265. Let the partners of a man who acts dishonestly exclude him from
any share of the profits. Let him who is disabled [to act personally
in the partnership business] act by the agency of another. Thus too it
is enjoined for [associations of] priests[354] farmers, and craftsmen.

266. Capture of a thief by the officer