ON EVIDENCE, OR T,HAT PHRIYAN. 
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the good deeds outweigh the evil ones, the happy spirit ascends to 
one of the twenty two heavenly spheres ; if they should prove light¬ 
er, it falls down to hell or narok. But if its sins have been of no 
great magnitude, yet not counterbalanced by a sufficiency of good 
actions, it migrates into the body of some human being, or animal. 
In the latter case it is believed that the soul chooses that sort of ani¬ 
mal for which it had the the greatest liking during life, or to which 
it assimilated in character. 
19. Personal enemies to accused persons [cause evident,] or to 
one or both parties in a suit. 
20. Children under 7 years of age. 
21. Persons whose age exceeds 70 years, probably from supposed 
imperfection of memory. 
22. Traducers of the characters of others, same as tiars. 
23. Persons labouring under any sort of temporary derangement 
of mind, [whether violent passions are included is not speceiied.] 
24. [Chang Kce-ak, Shoemakers, are excluded for the same 
reason that blacksmiths are. Perhaps the prejudice catne ftom Hin- 
doosfcan where it prevails in force. 
25. Beggars. Since open to corruption from their poverty, 
2(5. Braziers. 
27. Persons convicted of theft. 
28. Obstetricians. 
29. Those who use K,hat,ka aud Montra or incantations and 
sorcery are to be rejected. 
The following is the Civil and Criminal oath administered to wit¬ 
nesses, with the mode of administering it. It has been noticed be¬ 
fore that persons of different nations residing in Siam ; are sworn 
agreeably to their religious tenets. The forms attending on the ad¬ 
ministering the oath of fidelity to the king are different in some de¬ 
gree from those, to which it is here only requisite to allude although 
all foreigners are amenable to the laws of the kingdom. 
It is imposed annually on all officers during the 5th. month at the 
ceremony of bathing the king.* The practice of weighing the king 
The King bathes in his palace and cut his own hair. Priests are 
