Boundary Dispute
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
boundary · boundary dispute · boundary-marks
in the texts
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
The legal proceeding to resolve disputed boundaries between villages, fields, or houses.
19 Boundary Dispute
In the absence of neighbors as boundary witnesses, he should question these men who roam the forest.
Hunters, fowlers, herdsmen, fishermen, root-diggers, snake-catchers, gleaners, and other forest-dwellers.
Manusmṛti
A formal dispute between villages or landholders over land boundaries, resolved through markers, witness testimony, and royal judgment.
should be made at the junctions of boundaries, and also temples to the deities.
By these marks, the king should settle the boundary between two disputing parties;
If a boundary cannot be determined, the king himself, knowing the Dharma, should assign land to one of them out of favor;