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... for improving the administration of Anglo - Indian justice which finally commended itself to him was one for the preparation of a Digest in English of Hindu and Mahommedan law , which should 2 CHAP . I. THE SACRED LAWS OF THE HINDUS .
... for improving the administration of Anglo - Indian justice which finally commended itself to him was one for the preparation of a Digest in English of Hindu and Mahommedan law , which should 2 CHAP . I. THE SACRED LAWS OF THE HINDUS .
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Chiefly Selected from Lectures Delivered at Oxford Henry Sumner Maine. in English of Hindu and Mahommedan law , which should need no Pundits or Moolvies for its interpreta- tion . Much to their honour , the Indian Government of the day ...
Chiefly Selected from Lectures Delivered at Oxford Henry Sumner Maine. in English of Hindu and Mahommedan law , which should need no Pundits or Moolvies for its interpreta- tion . Much to their honour , the Indian Government of the day ...
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... English judicial officers — an impression shared , I infer from its language , by the English Parliament— manifestly was that the sacerdotal Hindu law corre- sponded nearly to the English Common Law , and was at least the substructure ...
... English judicial officers — an impression shared , I infer from its language , by the English Parliament— manifestly was that the sacerdotal Hindu law corre- sponded nearly to the English Common Law , and was at least the substructure ...
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... English lawyers , and some- times spoken of as the quintessence of wisdom , were really aids to recollection . As to Verse , the ordinary medical practitioner once carried his professional knowledge with him in the versified Latin rules ...
... English lawyers , and some- times spoken of as the quintessence of wisdom , were really aids to recollection . As to Verse , the ordinary medical practitioner once carried his professional knowledge with him in the versified Latin rules ...
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... English House of Lords . But these modern Second Chambers reverse to a great extent the functions of the ancient assemblies , known , from their names and otherwise , to have originally consisted of old men . The Second Chamber is ...
... English House of Lords . But these modern Second Chambers reverse to a great extent the functions of the ancient assemblies , known , from their names and otherwise , to have originally consisted of old men . The Second Chamber is ...
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