We will examine three types of reuse represented in Pāli legal literature:(1) unacknowledged borrowings of authoritative opinions and deinitions adapted (such as by dropping the references given in the source text) and rearranged (Samantapāsādikā> Kaṅkhāvitaraṇī; fourth to ifth century ce);(2) unacknowledged borrowings of largely unchanged selected text portions being rearranged (Samantapāsādikā> Vinaya-saṅgaha; twelfth century ce); and (3) unconnected extracts of unchanged text portions lined up in the sequence of the source text (for instance Pātimokkha-padattha-anuvaṇṇanā>