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... authority of the King . In the later por- tions of the book he examines certain forms of pro- perty and tenure , and certain legal conceptions and legal classifications , which have survived to our day , but which appear to have had ...
... authority of the King . In the later por- tions of the book he examines certain forms of pro- perty and tenure , and certain legal conceptions and legal classifications , which have survived to our day , but which appear to have had ...
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... authority . The original range of operation which it is possible to allow to the sacerdotal laws has been much narrowed by very recent investigation . Some years ago , on my return from India , I stated in a book on ' Village ...
... authority . The original range of operation which it is possible to allow to the sacerdotal laws has been much narrowed by very recent investigation . Some years ago , on my return from India , I stated in a book on ' Village ...
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... authority of the late Dr. Burnell is now cited for so late an age of the original book as 400 A.D. , and it has even been attributed in hâyana in the same volume , and his most important chapters in West and Bühler's Digest of Hindu Law ...
... authority of the late Dr. Burnell is now cited for so late an age of the original book as 400 A.D. , and it has even been attributed in hâyana in the same volume , and his most important chapters in West and Bühler's Digest of Hindu Law ...
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... authorities ( as it would now be , the particular stand- ard books ) which it followed ; and , as it went on from generation to generation , it was recruited partly by voluntary adherence and partly by hereditary descent . The double ...
... authorities ( as it would now be , the particular stand- ard books ) which it followed ; and , as it went on from generation to generation , it was recruited partly by voluntary adherence and partly by hereditary descent . The double ...
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... authority contradicted one another . Some- times they failed to supply a basis for received doctrines or for immemorial religious practice . One of the earliest of expedients was to suppose the loss of passages in the most ancient ...
... authority contradicted one another . Some- times they failed to supply a basis for received doctrines or for immemorial religious practice . One of the earliest of expedients was to suppose the loss of passages in the most ancient ...
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