260. [A joint trader] who occasions loss [to the partnership] by [engaging in] something which his partner has either prohibited or not sanctioned, or by any negligence, shall make it good: if [on the other hand by his personal exertion] he preserve anything [of the partnership property] from loss, he shall have the tenth of it.[347] 261. The monarch, for fixing the prices, should receive a duty of a twentieth.[348] If an article of which the sale is prohibited, or one fitting for the monarch[349] [to possess], be sold [without the royal license], it shall be forfeited to the Crown.[350] 262. Whoever declares false weight, or avoids the place where custom is levied, shall be made to pay eight-fold; so he who fraudulently buys or sells.[351] 263. A ferryman levying [toll as though for] land-duties, shall be made to pay a fine of ten _paṇas_.[352] The same fine is ordained for omission to send invitations to bráhmaṇs of the neighbourhood.[353] 264. On the death of one departed to a foreign country, his male offspring, his maternal kindred, or those more remotely related, shall take the property: in their default, the monarch [succeeds]. 265. Let the partners of a man who acts dishonestly exclude him from any share of the profits. Let him who is disabled [to act personally in the partnership business] act by the agency of another. Thus too it is enjoined for [associations of] priests[354] farmers, and craftsmen. 266. Capture of a thief by the officer is warranted by [his possession of] the property stolen, or by traces of him, also by his having been an offender previously, or his being an inmate of a house of ill repute. 267. And others there are who may be arrested on suspicion, _viz._, such as conceal their caste, name, &c., also those addicted to gambling, to women, and to drinking, and such as have [betrayed themselves by] a parched mouth in speaking, or a stammering voice; 268. those, moreover, who are inquisitive about others' goods and houses, or who put on a disguise, or who expend [lavishly] although they have no [ostensible] income, or who sell things that have been in use. 269. If one arrested on suspicion of theft do not clear himself, he is to be punished as a thief, being first compelled to make good the property stolen. 270. [The monarch] should compel the thief to make restitution of the stolen articles, and subject him to [such of] the different corporeal inflictions [as may be proper]: a bráhmaṇ [who is a thief] he shall brand and banish the realm. 271. When a murder or theft has occurred, and [the criminal] is not traced beyond the village, blame falls on the village governor; if [he be traced] to the public road, blame falls on the governor of the district; if traced out of the district, the officer charged with pursuit of criminals shall be to blame.