cover image: Tagore Law Lectures  1909. The General Principles of Hindu Jurisprudence

Premium

20.500.12592/c385gh

Tagore Law Lectures 1909. The General Principles of Hindu Jurisprudence

1918

The province of law is the establishment of rules for the regulation of human conduct amidst the diversity of inclinations and desires, so as to reconcile and harmonise the wishes of the individual with the interest of the community in which ultimately the interest of the indivi- dual is also involved ; it curtails the fictitious freedom of unregulated desires by subordinating the particular natur [...] the law inflict injury upon others ; the positive law may be said to comprise that portion of the law the violation of which calls for the interposition of the King in order to provide an adequate remedy to the injured party, or It may be added in this connection that the Sitinkhytt system agreed with, but the Vethinta differed freak the Minoinsri, theory regarding the admissibility of dependence [...] consists of commands issuing from the King, and the duly of enforcing the same is a self-imposed duty, accord- ing to the former view, the law issues from a source superior to the King, and the duty of enforcing the same is cast upon him from. above, so that the infliction of punishment Three characte- ristic elements involved in the conception of positive law. [...] According to the Hindu conception, it was the protection of the people, and not the collection of taxes, that was regarded as the principal duty of the King, and the administration of justice was one of the principal means to keep the people in order and to protect them in the proper enjoyment of their rights; of course the King had aright to collect taxes, but the right involved a corres- ponding [...] Having thus answered the objections of the other side, the supporters of the doctrine that the growth of owner- ship is au outcome of social evolution and not a deduction from Sastric injunctions urge that the verN fact that the conception of ownership is not confined to the people who46 Fitness for free disposal" special signi- ficance of the word " fit- ness. " 'recognise the authoritative chara
law
Pages
463
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xii Priyanath Sen view
Lecture I. Introduction
1-38 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture II Ownership: Its Nature and the Modes of its Acquisition
39-64 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture III Transfer of Ownership
65-102 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture IV. The Law of Pilescription
103-124 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture V. The Law of Succession
125-175 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture VI The Law of Pledge
176-206 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture VII The Law of Bailments and Other Incorporeal Rights
207-229 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture VIII Law Relating to Parental and Quasiparental Relationship
230-266 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture IX. Law Relating to Marital and Quasi-Marital Relationship
267-292 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture X. The Law of Dominicat. Relation and the Law of Defective Status in General
293-301 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture XI. The Law of Contractual Obligations
302-334 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture XII The Law of Torts and the Law of Crimes
335-360 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture XIII Adjective Law
361-373 Priyanath Sen view
Lecture XIV Concluding Remarks
374-378 Priyanath Sen view
Appendix A
379-383 Priyanath Sen view
Appendix B
384-417 Priyanath Sen view
Index
418-450 Priyanath Sen view
Errata
i-i Priyanath Sen view

Related Topics

All