 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...the obvious principles ot justice had Ld them btfbte to adopt. Nothing indeed could be more obvicurly just, than to determine private contests according...and engagements in civil life ; nor could any thing fce wiser than, by a legislative act to assure the Hindu and Mussulman subjects of Great Britain, that... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 566 pages
...Nothing indeed could be more obviously just, than to determine private contests according tw those Iaws> which the parties themselves had ever considered as...than, by a legislative act, to assure the Hindu and Mussulman subjects of Great Britian, that the private laws which they severally held sacred, and a... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 534 pages
...determine private contefts according to thofe laws, which the parties themfelves had ever confidered as the rules of their conduct and engagements in civil life ; nor could any thing be wifer, than, by a- legiflative act, to afifure the Hindu and Muffulman fubjects of Great Britain, that... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 360 pages
...decision, which the obvious principles of justice had led them before to adopt. Nothing indeed could be more obviously just, than to determine private contests...than, by a legislative act, to assure the Hindu and Mussulman subjects Of Great Britain, that the private laws which they severally held sacred, and a... | |
 | Sir Francis Workman Macnaghten - Hindu law - 1824 - 624 pages
...— "Nothing indeed," he says, "could be more obviously just, than to determine private con" tests according to those laws which the parties themselves,...wiser, than, by a legislative "act, to assure the Hindoo and Mussehnan subjects of Great " Britain, that the private laws, which they severally held... | |
 | William Hook Morley - 1850 - 1080 pages
...institutions, the preservation of which he so warmly advocates. " Nothing," says Sir William Jones2, " could be more obviously just than to determine private contests according to those laws wiiich the parties themselves had ever considered as the rules of their conduct and engagements in... | |
 | Lyttleton Forbes Winslow - Forensic psychiatry - 1863 - 788 pages
...of the 19th March, 1778, addressed to the Court of Directors in England, he says, " Nothing could be more obviously just than to determine private contests...than by a legislative act to assure the Hindu and Musselman subjects of Great Britain, that the private laws which they severally held sacred, and a... | |
 | Jagannát'ha Tercapanchánana - Contracts - 1864 - 510 pages
...possessed in so eminent a degree. " Nothing," says Sir WILLIAM JONES, in the address alluded to, " could be more obviously just than to determine " private contests...than, by a legislative act, to assure the " Hindu and Mu-selman subjects of Great Britain, that the " private laws which they severally hold sacred, and... | |
 | Shama Churun Sircar - Hindu law - 1867 - 1246 pages
...code. The sentiments expressed in that paper are truly worthy of him. " Nothing ( he says ) could be more obviously just than to determine private contests...than, by a legislative act, to assure the Hindu and * This work was compiled by several Pandits, of whom Jayan-ntitha, author of the Digest translated... | |
 | Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Sir Thomas Edward Colebrooke - Indo-Aryan philology - 1873 - 574 pages
...possessed in so eminent a degree. "Nothing," says Sir William Jones, in the Address alluded to, " could be more obviously just than to determine "private contests...conduct " and engagements in civil life ; nor could anything be wiser " than, by a legislative act, to assure the Hindu and Musul"man subjects of Great... | |
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Muselman subjects of Great Britain, that the private laws, which they severally hold sacred, and a violation of which they would have thought the most grievous oppression, should not be superseded by a new system, of which they could... 
