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1. Documents are of three kinds:
2. Attested by the king, or by (other) witnesses, or unattested.
3. A document is (said to be) attested by the king when it has been executed (in a court of judicature), on the king ordering it, by a scribe, his
[42. In the first case the agreement is made in the following form, 'I shall pay so and so much to you, in the way agreed on.' In the second case the sum is not divided between the sureties, and each of them liable for the whole debt therefore. (Nand.)
VII. 4. Y. II, 84-88.--5-7. Y. II, 89.--6. M. VIII, 168.--12. Y. II, 92.]
servant, and has been signed by his chief judge, with his own hand.
4. It is (said to be) attested by, witnesses when, having been written anywhere, and by any one, it is signed by witnesses in their own hands.
5. It is (said to be) unattested when it has been written (by the party himself) with his own hand.
6. Such a document, if it has been caused to be written by force, makes no evidence.
7. Neither does any fraudulent document (make evidence);
8. Nor a document (which), though attested, (is vitiated) by the signature of a witness bribed (by one party) or of bad character;
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