Manu 8.72
साहसेषु च सर्वेषु स्तेयसंग्रहणेषु च । वाग्दण्डयोश् च पारुष्ये न परीक्षेत) साक्षिणः ॥
sāhaseṣu ca sarveṣu steya.saṃgrahaṇeṣu ca | vāg.daṇḍayoś ca pāruṣye na parīkṣeta) sākṣiṇaḥ ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
In all cases of violence, of theft and adultery, of defamation and assault, he must not examine the (competence of) witnesses (too strictly).
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.