241. A tryer of coin who pronounces a false one to be genuine or a genuine one to be false, shall be made to pay the highest fine.
242. One who falsely sets himself up as a physician,[335] shall, [for his malpractice,] if brutes be concerned, pay the first fine—if mankind, the middle fine—but, if royal officers, the highest fine.
243. Whoso imprisons one not deserving of imprisonment,[336] or releases one found worthy of imprisonment or pending his trial,[337] shall pay the highest fine.
244. He who, in measurement, or [use of] the scales, defrauds [to the extent] of an eighth, shall be made to pay a fine of two hundred paṇas, and thus proportionably for a more or less quantity.
245. He who adulterates[338] medicine, or oily commodities, or salt, or perfumes, or corn, or sugar, or other saleable articles, shall be fined sixteen paṇas.
246. For making one sort of article to appear to be of another sort, whether it be earthen goods, or skins, or precious stones, or threads, or corn, or wood, or bark of trees, or clothes, a fine [is ordained of] eight-fold the purchase money.
247. For him who changes a covered basket,[339] or who gives in pledge or sells counterfeit drugs in a wrapper,[340] the fines prescribed are,
248. where [the value is] below a paṇa fifty paṇas, where [it amounts to] a paṇa one hundred paṇas, where to two paṇas two hundred paṇas: with increase of value the fine increases.
249. The highest fine is imposed on those who, [although] aware of the rise or fall in prices, combine, to the prejudice of labourers and artists, to create a price [of their own].
250. For traders who combine, by [arbitrarily fixing] an improper price, to impede [the traffic in] any commodity, or to make [an injurious] sale of it,[341] the highest fine is ordained.