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rior authority adjudge it. [But appeals are not barred where al¬ 
lowable.] 
A P,huk,hoo or Priest having - a dispute with a brother of the or¬ 
der must prefer his memorial in Court while his opponent is yet a 
member of it, and not afterwards, when he may have become a Lay¬ 
man :—and a Layman who neglects to prefer a suit against another 
Layman until he has put on the sacerdotal garments will be non¬ 
suited. 
‘ Chamop , ChakJaa and TJiask or necromancers and magicians 
‘ will not he heard in Court as accusers of those who have reason to 
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* complain against them.’ A person having a cause in Court and 
not attending on prescribed occasions will forfeit Ms suit, or if it be 
a criminal matter, he will be fined. A contempt of Court is pun- 
nished by fining. 
Parties in a suit, or any persons connected with a cause or a trial 
will not be permitted to stay, during the progress of either, in the 
house of the judge, nor will they be allowed to have free intercourse 
with each other. In all suits and trials, judges are to throw' out ir¬ 
relevant matter, and to adhere to the facts chiefly bearing on the 
case. 
Relatives of a party may council him in a suit at issue. 
Should a judge deem it advisable to refer a suit to a higher juris¬ 
diction than his own, and should one of the parties decline appear¬ 
ing before it, he forfeits his suit. 
A priority of right to be heard is acquired by a priority in filing of 
a suit. But in general ajudge must attend to the Ekkjiwam aya or 
matters of weighty import in preference to the KJwmm hak,hdn 
baanp,hcn or inferior matters. 
In a suit which respects property the admission of being in the 
wrong by one party does not lessen the necessity which the other is 
under of proving himself to be in the right, and if he cannot prove 
his right the King takes one third of the issue. 
