Principles of Hindu and Mohammadan Law Republished from the Principles and Precedents of the Same

Upon the renewal of the powers under which tile Government of India was left in the hands of the Company in 1833 the Governor-General in -Council was invested with authority to rnake7laws for the )thole of British India and the legislative functions of the several Presidencies ceased.; the enactments have since that time been denvainated Acts; their registration in the Supreme Court was also dis [...] Sutherland of the same service at Calcutta in 321—a Freneh tranlation by M. Orianne of the Dattaka Chandriki and a treatise on the Hindu law of succes.sioen was published at Paris in 1844.—Translations foin the Chapters of the MitasharA treating of the course of procedure of the Rules of Evidence and trial by ordeal were made by Mr. [...] Morley justly observes that it leaves little to be desired as far as regartjs the Hindu law of the South of India whilst the clearness of arrangement the aptness of the illustrations and the elegance of its diction well entitle it to a place by the side of the commentary of Blackstone. [...] Morley are of five descriptions ; I. The Kuran with the Tafsirs or commentaries : 2. the Millis or traditions with the works on Ijma the decisions of the companions of Mohammad and their disciples the Kiyas or conclusions deduced from a comparison of the Kuran the Surma and the lijma according to the exercise of private judgment : 3. General. [...] The author of theEltements adds : The ?um-tend with the pundits probably was ( the llengutl maxim) that however inconsistent the act with the ordinary yaks of inheritance and the legal pretensions of the parties Le tti~ ffige its validity was unquestionable." To this it can only be answered that the motives which actuated the pundits in their exposition of the law and the judges in their dec