XXVI.

Of cases where a cause will be lost, there are twenty-five in number, viz.

1. Hína sáksi, where the witnesses are worthless disreputable persons.

2. Hína sábda, where a thing is lost, and the owner thereof does not give information thereof to his chief.

3. Hína klína, where a person finds a thing and does not make it known.

4. Hína wang, where a person whom another deputes to act for him, in any law-suit, is deficient in what is required of him.

5. Kagúndang sáksi, where a witness produced by one party is the declared enemy of the other.

6. Hang'ímbu chína, where a person who has been robbed gets hold of the thieves' tools without making it known that he has done so.

7. Ng'edong sáksi, when a person brings false witnesses whom he has suborned.

8. Hakúto sáksi, where the witnesses have been bribed.