The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal September 1921

To this day there are traces of the patriachal system in the order of succession to the Turkish crown where the Sultan is simply the oldest living descendant of the founder of the dynasty and not the son of tho deceased Sultan. [...] The recent Soviet Revolution was a resumption of the lands appropriated by the sovereign and the nobility and the partition into severalty of all the lands thus acquired as well as those still owned by the " Mir " among all the residents of the district. [...] and Abel but the slowness of the general mind to accept the individual ownership of the soil is exemplified by the fact that by the law of Moses the land was to be rdivided and re-allotted every fifty years. [...] Whether the change was from the patriarchal to the tribal system from the tribal to the federation of tribes or the formation of nations from individual labour by a man and his sons to that of forced servtude or slavery or from that system to the feudal system and thence to the production of wealth by highly improved machinery with hired labour whatever the changes they have been brought a [...] The defenants contend that the sending of a sufficient number of wagons by the plaintiffs to receive the coal was a condition precedent to the continuance of the contract and they rely upon the terms of the letter of the 1st of August.