35. All the goods belonging to a debtor may be sold to pay his debts, except his wearing apparel.
36. If persons try to bring wild ground into cultivation, and call it their own without informing the officers, what proceedings are to be taken.
37. Cases of litigation as to rented ground.
38. When persons are unable, from poverty, to pay government taxes upon ground occupied by them.
39. In regard to loans of money, of which twenty different kinds are alluded to—to a friend, to a temple, etc.
40. If the whole of a loan cannot be repaid, and it is referred to the officers, they are to settle the interest to be paid. Upon large amounts the interest is placed low, upon small amounts it is high. Upon 10,000 kobangs the rate will be 80 kobangs per month, or nearly 10 per cent per annum. Upon one boo it may be one tenpo a month, or 75 per cent per annum.
41. In borrowing money, the interest is to vary with the security. If the security is land, the interest is to be low; with any other securities the interest should be high.
42. In disputes as to money: If no witnesses are brought forward; if partners in business quarrel; if persons in theaters quarrel; if a collector uses subscriptions to temples for his own purposes; if the evidence depends upon a paper without a date; if no rate of interest is mentioned—then these cases are not to be taken up.
43. If it is alleged that a Daimio has borrowed money from some town or body of people, and they do not bring forward a receipt, such is to be dismissed.
44. If one creditor refuses to have a composition.