| Notes | n. lit. "[a fee] in order to consume onion"; a fee to be paid by a plaintiff to the soldiers or bailiffs sent from the government office in order to arrest the defendant upon plantiff's request. According to the Mulukī Ain (MA-KM 1854 41.6-8), a plaintiff is required to pay the soldiers or bailiffs who are deployed to arrest the defendant, a fee of 2 ānās (in cash or in form of raw food (sidhā). The context of the Mulukī Ain suggests that this fee is paid to the soldiers or bailiffs to cover for food expenses when they are sent on duty to arrest the defendant of a legal dispute upon the plaintiff's request.
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