A Short Treatise on Hindu Law

A Short Treatise on Hindu Law

Author: Herbert Cowell

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1584778881

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Reprint of the sole edition. Cowell's book deals with the class of laws observed by members of the Hindu community in India that were recognized under British rule and incorporated into the colonial legal system. These dealt principally with family organization, land tenure and succession. A Short Treatise is founded partly on the author's Tagore Law Lectures of 1870 and 1871, and partly on lectures addressed to the students of the Inns of Court in 1893. It dates from a time when Anglo-Hindu law was a mature system that had attained its highest level of sophistication.