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The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: +++++++++++++++Yale Law LibraryLP3Y044030018250101The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926Caption title: Principles of Moohummudan law relative to inheritance, contracts, and miscellaneous subjects. Pages 1-77] in arabic numeraic.Calcutta: Printed at the Church Mission Press, 1825lxiii, iv]-v, 379, 77, 12, xxv, l] p.; 25 cmIndia

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Comprising The Doctrines Of The Soonee And Sheea Schools, And Based Upon The Text Of W. H. Macnaghten's Principles And Precedents, Together With The Decisions Of The Privy Council, And High Courts Of The Presidencies In India. For The Use Of Students.

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Title: Principles and Precedents of Hindu Law, Being a Compilation of Primary Rules Relative to the Doctrine of Inheritance, Contracts, and Miscellaneous Subjects and a Selection of Legal Opinions ... General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Original Publisher: Higginbotham Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A TRANSLATION A PORTION THE MITACSHARA. CHAPTER I. ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. SECTION I. Constitution of a J-udicial Assembly. 1. The protection of his subjects is the chief duty of a Judicial duty of a king. consecrated and otherwise qualified king, and this cannot be performed without restraining evil doers. But they cannot be discovered without legal investigation. Wherefore it is requisite, that daily attention should be paid to judicial proceedings, which gave rise to the text: " The king in person, being aided by assessors, should daily investigate judicial proceedings." But no explanation has yet been given of the nature, number, and forms of judicial proceedings. This second lecture is now commenced with a view of elucidating these points. 2. " The king, divested of anger and avarice, and asso- What law to ciated with learned Brahmins, should investigate judicial proceedings conformably to the sacred code of laws."f This refers to a former passage of YUjnyawakya cited in the Chapter treating of Achar, t Ydjnyawakya, cited in the Vyavahdramddhava, Smritichandric

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Section vni. OF THE EETURN. 91. The return is where there being no residua- ries, the surplus, after the distribution of the shares, returns to the sharers, and the doctrine of it is as follows: 92. It takes effect in four cases; first, where there is only one class of sharers unassociated with those not entitled to claim the return, as in the instance of two daughters or two sisters; in which case the surplus must be made into as many shares as there are sharers, and distributed among them equally. 93. Secondly, where there are two or more classes of sharers, unassociated with those not entitled to claim the return, as in the instance of a mother and two daughters; in which case the surplus must be made into as many shares as may correspond with the shares of inheritance to which the parties are entitled, and distributed accordingly. Thus the mother's share being one-sixth, and the two daughters' share two-thirds, the surplus must be made into six, of which the mother will take two and the daughters four. 94. Thirdly, when there is only one class of sharers, associated with those not entitled to claim to return, as in the instance of three daughters and a husband, in which case the whole estate must be divided into the smallest number of shares of which it is susceptible, consistently, with giving the person excluded from the return his share of the inheritance, (which is in this case four,) and the husband will take one ashis legal share or a fourth, the remaining three going to the daughters as their legal shares and as the return; but if it cannot be so distributed without a fraction, as in the case of a husband and six daughters, (three not being capable of division among six,) the proportion must be ascertained between the shares and sharers. Thus 3X2=6, which...

Comprising The Doctrines Of The Soonee And Sheea Schools, And Based Upon The Text Of W. H. Macnaghten's Principles And Precedents, Together With The Decisions Of The Privy Council, And High Courts Of The Presidencies In India. For The Use Of Students.