93. As often as the debtor makes a payment, either he shall write an indorsement to that effect on the document, or the creditor shall give a receipt under his hand.
94. When the debt is paid, [the debtor] shall cause the document to be torn up, or shall have another prepared, viz. of discharge. If the debt was incurred before witnesses, its payment should also be before witnesses.[170]
95. The scales, fire, water, poison, the sacred draught—these are the ordeals for exculpation,[171] in case of grave accusations, if the accuser be prepared to pay a fine.
96. When it is agreed on; one of the parties shall perform [the ordeal], the other be in readiness to pay the fine. Even without a fine, there shall be trial by ordeal in case of treason or great crime.
97. [The accused,] being summoned, shall, after bathing at sunrise and fasting, be made to go through the several ordeals, in presence of the monarch and the bráhmaṇs.
98. The scales are [the ordeal] for women, children, aged men, the blind, the lame, bráhmaṇs, and those afflicted with disease. Fire or water, or the seven barleycorns' weight of poison are [the ordeal] for a Śúdrá.
99. For a less value than a thousand paṇas, one shall not go through the ordeal of the [heated] iron plough-share, of poison, or of the scales: but in case of offence against the monarch or great crime, purifications[172] shall always be gone through.
100. When the accused has been placed in the scales by those who understand the art of weighing, a counter-weight adjusted, and a line drawn, he is then to be taken out [of the scales.]