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" It would be absurd and unjust to pass an indiscriminate censure on a considerable body of men ; but my experience justifies me in declaring, that I could not with an easy conscience concur in a decision, merely on the written opinion of native lawyers,... "
Considerations on the Hindoo Law, as it is Current in Bengal - Page v
by Sir Francis Workman Macnaghten - 1824 - 478 pages
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1805 - 582 pages
...cause in which they could have the remotest interest in misleading the court ; nor, how vigilant soewer we might be, would it be very difficult for them to...introduced only for the purpose of being exploded. The obvious remedy for this evil had occurred to me before I left England, where I had communicated...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones, Volume 2

John Shore Baron Teignmouth - Lawyers Great Britain Biography - 1806 - 618 pages
...of native lawyers, in any cause in which they could have the remotest interest in misleading 165 ing the court ; nor, how vigilant soever we might be,...introduced only for the purpose of being exploded. The obvious remedy for this evil had occurred to me before I left England, where I had communicated...
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Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones, Volume 2

John Shore Baron Teignmouth - India - 1806 - 636 pages
...cause in which they could have the remotest interest in misleading the Court ; nor, how vigilant socvet we might be, would it be very difficult for them to...introduced only for the purpose of being exploded. The obvious remedy for this evil had occurred to me before I left England, where I had communicated...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 22

British prose literature - 1821 - 360 pages
...declaring, that I could not, with an easy conscience, concur in a decision, merely on the written opinion of native lawyers, in any cause in which they could...introduced only for the purpose of being exploded. The obvious remedy for this evil had occurred to me before I left England, where I had communicated...
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Observations on the Law and Constitution of India: On the Nature of Landed ...

India. [Appendix.] - Finance - 1825 - 444 pages
...written opinion of native law" yers, in any cause in which they could have the remotest " reason for misleading the court. Nor how vigilant " soever we...introduced " only for the purpose of being exploded." It was an object of the highest ambition of this benevolent judge, to put government in possession...
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The Quarterly Oriental Magazine, Review, and Register, Part 76, Volume 3

British - 1825 - 598 pages
...similar tendency; but as Sir Wm. Jones observes " a simple obscure text, as explained by the Pundits themselves, might be quoted, as express authority,...introduced only for the purpose of being exploded." In a translation, the entire passage of the original is given, whilst in a Pundit's vyavasthd it is...
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An Analytical Digest of All the Reported Cases Decided in the ..., Volume 1

William Hook Morley - 1850 - 1080 pages
...since observed — " I could not with any conscience concur in a decision merely on the written opinion of native lawyers, in any cause in which they could...explained, or introduced only for the purpose of being exploded."2 And again, Sir Francis Macnaghten says, alluding to the Pandits — " Native lawyers may...
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Self-made Men

Charles C. B. Seymour - Biography - 1858 - 606 pages
...declaring," he says, " that I could not, with an easy conscience, concur in a decision merely on the opinion of native lawyers in any cause in which they could...introduced only for the purpose of being exploded." In the execution of this great project he enlisted the sympathies and assistance of Lord Cornwallis,...
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Men who have made themselves [by J. McGilchrist].

John McGilchrist - 1860 - 404 pages
...declaring, that I could not, with an easy K conscience, concur in a decision, merely on the written opinion of native lawyers, in any cause in which they could...introduced only for the purpose of being exploded." The work being beyond the resources of a private man, he, after some hesitation, applied to Lord Cornwallis,...
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The Legal Doctrine of Responsibility in Cases of Insanity, Connected with ...

Lyttleton Forbes Winslow - Forensic psychiatry - 1863 - 788 pages
...declaring that I could not, with an easy conscience, concur in a decision, merely on the written opinion of native lawyers, in any cause in which they could...might be quoted as express authority, though perhaps from the very book from which it was selected it might be differently explained, or introduced only...
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