A Digest Of Hindu Law On Contracts And Successions With A Commentary

Author : Jagannatha Tarcapanchanana
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ISBN 13 : 9781332514205
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Digest of Hindu Law, on Contracts and Successions, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Jagannatha Tarcapanchanana and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Digest of Hindu Law, on Contracts and Successions, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Commentary The motives for undertaking the compilation of a New Digest of Indian Law, are so well unfolded in a letter addressed by the late Sir William Jones to the Supreme Council of Bengal, that it will suffice to extract therefrom the sentiments expressed by that venerable Magistrate. It must ever be regretted, that the Public has lost, by his premature death, a translation, from his pen, of a Digest compiled under his direction, and an introductory Discourse, for which he had prepared curious and ample materials. The loss is irreparable; for, no other joins to a competent knowledge of Oriental Languages, that legislative spirit and intimate acquaintance with the Principles of Jurisprudence, which he possessed in so eminent a degree. "Nothing," says Sir William Jones, in the address alluded to, "could be more obviously just than to determine private contests according to those laws which the parties themselves had ever considered as the rules of their conduct and engagements in civil life; nor could any thing be wiser than, by a legislative act, to assure the Hindu and Muselman subjects of Great Britain, that the private laws which they severally hold sacred, and a violation of which they would have thought the most grievous oppression, should not be superseded by a new system, of which they could have no knowledge, and which they must have considered as imposed on them by a spirit of rigour and intolerance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.