Restraint
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
restraint · avoiding strife and hatred · harmless laws of peace · restrain · restraint by time · restraint of place
in the texts
Hymn 8 to Ares
Restraint is the desired mastery over violent anger and destructive impulses.
Rather, O blessed one, give you me boldness to abide within the harmless laws of peace, avoiding strife and hatred and the violent fiends of death.
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
A legal mechanism of constraining a litigant's movement, property, or activity pending resolution of a dispute, classified into four kinds with rules on lawful transgression.
Restraint of place, restraint by time, restraint from travel, and from work;
these things belonging to an unjust litigant may be placed under restraint by the plaintiff.
In crossing rivers, in wildernesses, in dangerous places, during calamities, and so on, a restrained person who transgresses the restraint of another does not commit an offense.
Nāradasmṛti
A procedural measure restraining a defendant's place, time, travel, or work pending a suit, with defined exceptions for the sick, the vowed, minors, and others.
When crossing a river, in a wilderness, in a dangerous region, or during a calamity, a restrained person who transgresses that restraint commits no offense.
He who, being restrained, transgresses the restraint during the period of restraint, shall be punished.
A plaintiff should restrain a defendant who does not stand to state his case or who evades his words, until the summons is presented.