276 MALAY SLAVERY LAW. 
Chapter the twenty fifth.* To declare the law relating to the re- 
jection of property which has becn purchased, on account of some 
defect. When on the delivery of an article the purchaser discovers 
in it a defect of long standing he can return it. If the defect is 
not discovered at once the property may be returned to the vendor 
whenever it is discovered, but this does not apply to a purchaser 
who knowing of the defect has been trying in his turn to disguise 
it and to sell the property. Ifa female slave is pregnant at the 
time of purchase and gives birth to a child while she is in the poss- 
ession of her new owner, the child remains the property of the 
latter and is not sent back with the mother. There are a number 
of defects for which a slave may be rejected. Habitual runaways, 
prostitutes, thieves, lunatics and persons afflicted with aneurism, 
hernia, partial blindness, deafness, the skin disease called sopak, 
or dumbness, and female slaves who have husbands, may he rejected 
and so may those who have some hidden defect at whatever time 
the latter may be discovered. 
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*Compare section 9 on p. 14 supra. It seems to be the Pahang law, while. 
this section is the Perak law. 
