Legal Histories of the British Empire
Legal Histories of the British Empire

Author: Shaunnagh Dorsett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-24

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1317915747

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This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, the authors provide in-depth analyses which shine new light on the role of law in creating the people and places of the British Empire. Ranging from the United States, through Calcutta, across Australasia to the Gold Coast, these essays seek to investigate law’s central place in the British Empire, and the role of its agents in embedding British rule and culture in colonial territories. One of the first collections to provide a sustained engagement with the legal histories of the British Empire, in particular beyond the settler colonies, this work aims to encourage further scholarship and new approaches to the writing of the histories of that Empire. Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies will be of value not only to legal scholars and graduate students, but of interest to all of those who want to know more about the laws in and of the British Empire.

The Law Of Trusts In British India
The Law Of Trusts In British India

Author: William Fischer Agnew

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-03-27

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 9781011584888

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The Law of Trusts in British India (Classic Reprint)
The Law of Trusts in British India (Classic Reprint)

Author: William Fischer Agnew

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 9781330508664

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Excerpt from The Law of Trusts in British India At the time when these lectures were delivered by Mr. F. W. Agnew, the Law of Trusts in British India was no more than the law of England administered in the Indian territories. The Indian Trusts Bill was then on the anvil and in the year following it became law. It was a statutory expression of the law of private trusts, but for reasons unknown, the Act has not been extended in its operation to the whole of British India. The Statutes of Elizabeth on Fraudulent Conveyances have been replaced by the provisions of the Transfer of Property Act and that of Victoria on Insolvent Debtors by the Provincial and the Presidency-Towns Insolvency Acts. The Official Trustees' and Administrator-General's Acts have been revised and re-enacted. In the field of public trusts the Charitable Endowments Act is the sole piece of legislation. Beyond relieving the Government of its responsibility for the working of some institutions of public interest, the Religious Endowments Act has done no real good but the lethargy of the Legislature has conferred on it an ill-deserved longevity. The Charitable and Religious Trusts Control Act has now been passed and the merits of the measure must rest for future appreciation. To the learned Judiciary, the chapters on Benami Transactions and Religious Trusts owe their particular magnitude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.