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of two kinds, viz royal and jānapada (popular, of the common people')
Bṛhaspati (pp 304-5 vv 4-11) says
Popular writings are sevenfold, viz partition (deed), gift-deed, purchase,
mortgage deed, (deed of) conventions, deed of service (or bondage),
a deed of debt and the like Royal writings are of three kinds Where
brothers, divided among themselves according to their wishes, make a
document of separation, that is called a partition deed 'That writing
which, on making a gift of land, a person executes and which is (intended)
to last as long as the sun and the moon endure and that is not to be cut
down (as to the extent of the gift) nor to be resumed, $^1$is known to be a
deed of gift When a person, having bought a house, a field and the like,
causes a writing to be made containing words that state the exact price (paid
or agreed), that is called a deed of purchase That is called a deed of mor-
tgage (or pledge) when a person gives movable or immovable property as a
pledge and makes a writing which requires (the pledge) to be either preserv-
ed (intact without enjoyment) or to be enjoyed $^2$ When (the people of) a
village or a country execute a document in furtherance of dharma (i e
laying down some rule or convention of conduct), on which there is common
agreement, which is not opposed to the (interest or orders of the) king,
that is said to be a deed of conventions That document, which a
person, destitute of food and clothes in a forest, makes stating 'I shall do
your work (or the tasks you will appoint),' is called a bond of service (or
serfdom) That document of future repayment (uddhāra) which a man,
having borrowed money at interest, executes himself or causes to be
written (by another) is termed by the wise a bond of debt
On account of the word ādi (in the first verse above) documents of puri-
fication and the like are also included (in the enumeration of kinds of writings)
Kātyāyana describes a deed of purification and the like
When a person has performed the (prescribed) penance and become free
from the accusation (of having committed a forbidden act) the deed attest-
ed by witnesses given to him is known as a deed of purification That
writing is known as a deed of peace which recites what happened (by way
of compromise or settlement) when an accusation is brought (against a
a person) before all the leading people $^3$ When a boundary dispute is
decided, the writing (made) is ordained to be a