36. Stolen property, however, is to be given up by the monarch to the subject; seeing that, if he do not give it, he shall bear all the sin of that person from whom [it is stolen].[94]
37. Where there is a pledge, the interest, month by month, shall be an eightieth part; otherwise, two, three, four or five parts, in a hundred, according to the order of cast.[95]
38. They however who travel in forests[96] give ten parts; they who go to sea, twenty parts, in a hundred. Or, all[97] must render to all, of whatever cast, the rate of interest settled amongst themselves.[98]
39. But for cattle and women lent [the return] is, their offspring: the highest encrease demandable for use of liquids[99] is eight-fold; for wearing apparel, for corn, and for gold, four-fold, three-fold and two-fold respectively.
40. The monarch should not blame one who enforces a recognised debt.[100] If he, against whom the debt is enforced, complain to the monarch, he may be punished, besides being compelled to pay the debt.
41. The debtor [as a general rule] shall be made to pay his creditors in the order in which he has received from them; but a bráhmaṇ he is to pay [first], and, after him, the monarch.
42. The debtor shall be made to pay to the monarch ten parts in a hundred of the sum proved against him;[101] and the creditor, when he has recovered his property, five parts.[102]
43. One of inferior cast,[103] who is without means, may be compelled to labour[104] in discharge of his debt; but a bráhmaṇ,[105] wanting means [to discharge his debt at once], shall pay gradually in proportion to what may come to him.