The same [rule applies] to land kept for pasture. An ass and a camel are [in this respect] the same as a female buffalo. 161. There shall be an indemnity for the owner of the field equal in value to the corn destroyed.[249] The herdsmen shall receive a beating, but the cattle-owner be punished by fine, as before mentioned. 162. No guilt attaches[250] [to the cattle-owner,] if the field[251] be close to the public road, or to the village pasture lands,[252] and he do not intend [the trespass]; if he do intend it, then he incurs punishment as a thief. 163. A bull, cattle permitted to be at large,[253] a cow that has recently calved, estrays,[254] and the like,[255] having no keeper or brought there by accident or by act of the monarch, shall be let go free.[256] 164. The herdsman shall, at the close of the day, give back the cattle, in the same manner[257] as they were delivered to him: if he be in receipt of wages, he shall replace such as have, through his negligence, died or been lost.[258] 165. If loss accrue by fault of the herdsman, he shall be fined thirteen _paṇas_ and a half, and shall make good the loss to the owner. 166. Pasture-ground shall be allotted for cattle, such as the villagers agree upon, or in proportion to the whole area of land, or as the monarch wills. A twice-born man may, in every place, appropriate as his own, grass, fuel, and flowers.[259] 167. There shall be a space of one hundred _dhanus_[260] between a _gráma_,[261] and the [surrounding] fields, of two hundred for a _karvaṭa_,[261] of four hundred for a _nagara_.[261] 168. A man may seize any thing, belonging to himself, which another has sold.[262] The purchaser incurs blame, if [he have bought] secretly: and, if [he bought] from a low man,[263] with secrecy, for a small price, and at an unusual hour, he is [to be accounted] a thief. 169. If one obtain property [which he afterwards discovers to have been] lost or stolen, he should cause the taker[264] of it to be secured: should time or the place not permit of this being done, he must himself restore the property [to its owner]. 170. Upon his producing the seller, he [the possessor,] is himself cleared: the owner takes the property, the monarch the fine, and the [defrauded] purchaser the value from the seller. 171. [A claim to] property [as] lost,[265] is to be supported by proof of acquisition[266] or of user: [the claimant,] if he fail, shall pay to the monarch one-fifth of the value [of the property] as a fine. 172. Whoever takes [back] from the hand of a stranger what has been stolen or lost [from himself] without informing the monarch, shall pay a fine of ninety six _paṇas_.[267] 173. When lost or stolen property has been recovered by customs officers or by the local police, the owner may claim it until one year has elapsed;[268] after that time it goes to the monarch.