 | William Robertson - Europe - 1791 - 398 pages
...adventures at fea ; an exception which the fenfe of ** mankind approves, and which commerce abfolutely requires, " though it was not before the reign of Charles I. that our " Englifh jurifprudence fully admitted it in refpect of maritime " contrails c." It is likewife worthy... | |
 | William Robertson - Classical geography - 1791 - 408 pages
...exception which the fenfe of " mankind approves, and which commerce abfolutely requires, N na " though M though it was not before the reign of Charles I. that our ** Englifh jurifprudence fully admitted it in refpect of maritime " contracts c." It is likewife worthy... | |
 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1801 - 580 pages
...they fuppofe to have been revealed by Menu many millions of years ago, •we find a curious paflage on the legal interest of money, and the limited rate of it in different cafes, with an exception in regard to adventures at sea; an exception •which the fenfe of mankind... | |
 | William Robertson - India - 1804 - 422 pages
...adventures at fea ; an excep" tion which the fenfe of mankind approves, and " which commerce abfolutely requires, though it " was not before the reign of Charles I. that our «' Englifh jurifprudence fully admitted it in refpect <c of maritime contracts c." It is likewife... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1807 - 488 pages
...adventures ztfea; an exception, which the fenfe of mankind approves, and which commerce abfolutely requires, though it was not before the reign of CHARLES I. that our own jurifprudence fully admitted it in refpect of maritime contracts. We are told by the Grecian writers,... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 480 pages
...adventures aijea; an exception, which the fenfe of mankind approves* and which commerce abfolutely requires, though it was not before the reign of CHARLES I. that our own jurifpfudence fully admitted it in reipect of maritime contracts. We are told by the Grecian writers,... | |
 | Richard Millar - 1811 - 356 pages
...principle or element of water. This is a mistake, as appears from the following passage of Sir W. Jones: " That the Hindus were in early ages a commercial people,...our own jurisprudence fully admitted it in respect of maritime contracts." (Works of Sir W. Jones, vol. 1.32.) The laws of Menu are believed to have been... | |
 | William Robertson - India - 1812 - 422 pages
...indebted,) which the. Hindoos, suppose to have been revealed by Menu some millions of years ago, there is a curious passage on the legal interest of money,...it was not before the reign of Charles I. that our English jurisprudence fully admitted it in respect of maritime contracts."* It is likewise worthy of... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - India - 1812 - 404 pages
...probably, of a far superior traditional antiquity, there is a curious passage on the legal interestof money, and the limited rate of it in different cases,...with an exception in regard to adventures at sea."* Future investigation, and our increasing knowledge relative to the early growth of the sciences in... | |
 | 1842 - 634 pages
...that these most ancient books of the Hindoos, the Institutes of Menu, amongst other things, regulate " the legal interest of money, and the limited rate...cases, with an exception in regard to adventures at sea !" Now the question we wish to ask is this— how long ago did the Indians engage in " adventures at... | |
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In the first of the sacred law tracts (as is observed by a person to whom Oriental literature, in all its branches, has been greatly indebted), which the Hindoos suppose to have been revealed by Menu, some millions of years ago, there is a curious passage... 
