A Treatise on Hindu Law and Usage

This is characteristic not only of the present work but of his monumental treatise on Damages ' where the enunciation of the main rules as to the measure of damages is cast in the form of a discussion of the leading case of Hadley v. Baxesidale. [...] This mode ortreatmen't undoubtedly leads to diffuseness and expands the contents of the book ; on the other hand it has a great educative value by showing the historical evolution of the law and by keeping the student in contact with the actual pronouncements of the judges wM have built it up. [...] The case law I believe to be recorded completely up to the end of 1921 ; seine cases reported in 1922 have been brought into the text of the latter half of the book but not into the earlier half which was then through the press. [...] Another and completely different current of opinion is that of those who think that Hindu Law as represented in the Sanskrit writings has little application to any but Brahmans or those who accept the minittrations of Bralnnans and that it has poeBearing upon the life of the inferior castes and of the non-Aryan races. [...] The age of miracles has passed and I hardly expect to see a code of Hindu Law which shall satisfy the trader and the Agriculturist the Punjabi and the Bengali the pundits of Benares and Ramaiswaram of Ainritsa4and of Poona.