Compact means an agreement and transgression implies a break or breach of the agreement. Compact in ancient India could imply a local caste usage, convention or an association or corporation formed by group of people for different purposes certain rules and established usage among specified groups such as naigamas, guilds of merchants or corporation etc. It was deemed the responsibility of the king to ensure the continuance of these usages among these groups and to honor them like customs, if they were not at variance with the established custom or public interest.
Manu states the law of transgression in some of these verses, “If a man, belonging to a corporation inhabiting a village or a district, after swearing to an agreement breaks …show more content…
(e) Gana - Or the corporation of Brahmanas
(f) Craftsman- those who subsist by some craft
(g) Sangha - Followers of Jainism and Buddhism and
(h) Gulma - the companies of chandalas (outcastes)and svapas (those who eat dog flesh)
Yajnavalkya (II 189-190) tells that when the principal men of group wait on the king, the latter should listen to them and send them away with honors and gifts and whatever they obtain from king should be handed over as property of the group. This is (rajaprasadalabha).
Repentance after sale and purchase or non-delivery after selling (Krayavikrayanusaya)
This rescission of purchase and sale has been regarded as a title of law by Narada.78 Manu has treated it under a single topic while Narada has put it under two heads (i)Kritanusaya, i.e. repentance of purchase and (ii)vikrayasampradana, i.e. non-delivery of the thing sold.
In the contract of marriage, Manu entails that in case of one who gives a blemished damsel to a suitor without informing him (of the blemish), the king shall himself impose a fine of ninety-six panas. Also, if somebody simply out of malice, calls that a maiden is not a maiden, or accuses her of not being a virgin shall be fined one hundred (panas).79 Also, Manu declares emphatically that with the seventh step (of bridge around sacred fire the marriage ceremony was complete and nobody could resolve it after
Manu states the law of transgression in some of these verses, “If a man, belonging to a corporation inhabiting a village or a district, after swearing to an agreement breaks …show more content…
(e) Gana - Or the corporation of Brahmanas
(f) Craftsman- those who subsist by some craft
(g) Sangha - Followers of Jainism and Buddhism and
(h) Gulma - the companies of chandalas (outcastes)and svapas (those who eat dog flesh)
Yajnavalkya (II 189-190) tells that when the principal men of group wait on the king, the latter should listen to them and send them away with honors and gifts and whatever they obtain from king should be handed over as property of the group. This is (rajaprasadalabha).
Repentance after sale and purchase or non-delivery after selling (Krayavikrayanusaya)
This rescission of purchase and sale has been regarded as a title of law by Narada.78 Manu has treated it under a single topic while Narada has put it under two heads (i)Kritanusaya, i.e. repentance of purchase and (ii)vikrayasampradana, i.e. non-delivery of the thing sold.
In the contract of marriage, Manu entails that in case of one who gives a blemished damsel to a suitor without informing him (of the blemish), the king shall himself impose a fine of ninety-six panas. Also, if somebody simply out of malice, calls that a maiden is not a maiden, or accuses her of not being a virgin shall be fined one hundred (panas).79 Also, Manu declares emphatically that with the seventh step (of bridge around sacred fire the marriage ceremony was complete and nobody could resolve it after