Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, Volumes 1-2

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Society of Comparative Legislation, 1896
Includes annual "Review of legislation" covering the years 1859-1949.

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Page 114 - the expression ' workman ' does not include a domestic or menial servant, but save as aforesaid, means any person who, being a labourer, servant in husbandry, journeyman, artificer, handicraftsman, miner, or otherwise engaged in manual labour, whether under the age of twenty-one years or above that age...
Page vii - the great repository of verifiable phenomena of ancient usage and ancient juridical thought,' and the scene of some of the most interesting modern experiments in legislation, is a limitless field for work such as the society seeks to promote. There ancient and modern codes co-exist. In customs and usages still observed are legal conceptions of which in the Western world are only obscure traces ; and the meeting of several diverse systems of law has given rise to problems akin to those which in the...
Page 208 - Calcutta : provided that their inheritance, and succession to lands, rents and goods and all matters of contract and dealing between party and party, shall be determined in the case of Mahomedans by the laws and usages of the...
Page 247 - ... inquiry, that the action was really brought to try a right besides the mere right to recover damages for the trespass or grievance for which the action shall have been brought, or that the trespass or grievance in respect of which the action was brought was wilful and malicious.
Page 4 - ... her majesty having taken the said report into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of her privy council, to approve thereof, and of the rules and regulations set forth therein, in the words following, videlicet : — I.
Page 211 - The law to be observed in the trial of suits shall be Acts of Parliament and regulations of Government applicable to the case; in the absence of such Acts and regulations, the usage of the country in which the suit arose; if none such appears, the law of the defendant, and, in the absence of specific law and usage, justice, equity and good conscience alone.
Page 210 - So much of any law or usage now in force, within the territories subject to the Government of the East India Company, as inflicts on any person forfeiture of rights or property, or may be held in any way to impair or affect any right of inheritance, by reason of his or her renouncing, or having been excluded from the communion of any religion, or being deprived of caste, shall cease to be enforced as Law in the Courts of the East India Company, and in the Courts established by Royal Charter within...
Page 4 - ... the Lords of the Committee, in obedience to your Majesty's said order of reference, have...
Page 208 - Bengal, from time to time, to make and issue such rules, ordinances, and regulations, for the good order and civil government...
Page 211 - In questions regarding succession, special property of females, betrothal, marriage, divorce, dower, adoption, guardianship, minority, bastardy, family relations, wills, legacies, gifts, partitions, or any religious usage or institution, the rule of decision shall be — (a) any custom applicable to the parties concerned which is not contrary to justice, equity or good conscience...

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