On the Deficidencies in the Present Administration of Hindu Law; Being a Paper Read at the Meeting of the East India Association on the 8th Of, June,
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On the Deficidencies in the Present Administration of Hindu Law; Being a Paper Read at the Meeting of the East India Association on the 8th Of, June,

On the Deficidencies in the Present Administration of Hindu Law; Being a Paper Read at the Meeting of the East India Association on the 8th Of, June,


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871. Excerpt: ... ON THE DEFICIENCIES IN THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION OF HINDU LAW. The attention of the East India Association having lately been drawn by Mr. W. Tayler to some urgent wants in the administration of justice, in so far as Indian litigants in general are concerned, it may not be inexpedient to bring under your notice the difficulties which beset the course of justice in reference to a particular class of cases which it did not enter into the scope of Mr. Tayler's able paper to deal with, viz. of those cases which are governed by Hindu law. This law, I need not explain, concerns two topics of litigation only--' that of inheritance and that of adoption--topics intimately connected with Hindu religious belief, and therefore allowed to remain free from the touch of foreign legislation. The Hindu law, it is likewise unnecessary for me to add, is laid down in the ancient and mediaeval works of the Hindus, all of which are written in Sanskrit. It is contained in the code of Manu, in that of Tajnavalkya, in the codes of numerous legislators, which are intermediate between, or posterior to, both these great authorities, and in a number of subsequent, but very important commentaries and digests, which have developed the ancient law, and ultimately, because latest in time, have become first in authority. Amongst these, one of the most important in all matters relating to the law of inheritance is the Mitakshara of Vijnanesvara, which, as Colebrooke says, is, with the exception of Bengal, "received in all the schools of Hindu law, from Benares to the southern extremity of the peninsula of India, as the chief groundwork of the doctrines which they follow, and as an authority from which they rarely dissent." The Mitakshara' was expanded in subsequent digests, and, in conseq...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217845250
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217845258
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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