Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volúmenes2-3Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1835 Most years contain the Proceedings and Annual report of the society. |
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ABÚ ABU HANIFAH Ádi Ahmednagar Alexander Johnston amongst ancient ANTAR appear ARTICLE Bart Bengal Bombay British Buddha Buddhism Burman Calcutta Captain Ceylon Charles church climate coast Cochin Colonel consequence considered Council cultivation Dekkan Désmukhs durable dynasty East India favour feet high feet in height forests GEORGE THOMAS STAUNTON Henry Hidayah hills Hindú Hindústán Inám inches in diameter inhabitants inscription James John John Francis Davis Kází Konkan land Lieut.-Colonel Lord Mackenzie Madras Mahrs Malabar Malayála name Mangalore Martaban Members miles Mírásdárs MUHAMMED Muhammedan law natives observed opinion Oriental Patél person possession Prajná present prince produces a fruit Professor punishment Rájá religion Resident respect Right Honourable river ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY rupees Sanskrit Siamese Sir Alexander Johnston slave Swabháva Tamil name Tavoy Thomas timber tion town translated Travancór tree which grows tribe twelve vessels village William wood yatna
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Página 121 - A CONSIDERATION of some sort or other is so absolutely necessary to the forming of a contract, that a nudum pactum, or agreement to do or pay any thing on one side, without any compensation on the other, is totally void in law ; and a man k ff. 19. S. &. cannot be compelled to perform it...
Página 99 - In the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as two distinct persons, and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries: and therefore in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be sued without her husband.
Página lvii - KG THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE HON. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. Council : THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF MUNSTER, Vice-President . THE RIGHT HON.
Página lii - The General Meetings of the Society shall be held on the first and third Saturday in every month, from...
Página 289 - In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
Página 96 - And, taking it in a civil light, the law treats it as it does all other contracts : allowing it to be good and valid in all cases, where the parties at the time of making it were, in the first place, willing to contract 5 secondly, able to contract ; and, lastly, actually did contract, in the proper forms and solemnities required by law.
Página xii - Testament, from the Latin translation, and annotations of the learned Genevan divine Theodore Beza. In the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, the English catholics at Rheims published a version of the whole Bible, crowded with barbarous terms, and accompanied with notes calculated to support the doctrines of their church.
Página 143 - O true believers, the law of retaliation is ordained you for the slain: the free shall die for the free and the servant for the servant, and a woman for a woman: but he whom his brother shall forgive, may ba prosecuted, and obliged to make satisfaction according to what is just, and a fine shall be set on him with humanity.
Página 299 - Srishti-Kamang, or the immediate agents of creation ; and each, in his turn, having become Sarvaguna (invested with all qualities, or invested with the three gunas), produced all things by his fiat.
Página 223 - THE next village tenure is that of Kulkarni : the office is of very great importance, for the Kulkarni is not only the accountant of the government revenue, but he keeps the private accounts of each individual in the village, and is the general amanuensis— few of the cultivators, the Patels frequently inclusive, being able to write or cypher for themselves.