[Rarebooks] fs-Law of India, including Hindu Law [II]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on the law of India,
including Hindu law, and related subjects; for others, please
feel free to browse our web site, where you may search our entire
inventory by any word or phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  [INDIA, LAW REFORM AND INDEPENDENCE].  Report of the Indian
Statutory Commission [and] Reports of the Committees appointed by
the Provincial Legislative Councils to Co-operate with the Indian
Statutory Commission [etc.]. Three Volumes in Two.  His Majesty's
Stationery Office, London, 1930.  3/4 crimson morocco gilt, an
attractive set. [67663 L72]                              $ 250.00

An important part of the efforts leading up to the proposed major
reforms of 1935 in the Government of India Act, the "last and, in
the event, the most portentous essay [by the British] in balancing
and ruling India" prior to Independence in 1947.

2.  [INDIA].  Sunder Raman.  Fundamental Rights and the 42nd
Constitutional Amendment.  South Asia Books, Columbia, 1977.  Worn
and spotted, but sound. [41822 12L39]                     $ 25.00

3.  JONES, William.  Institutes of Hindu Law: Or, the Ordinances
of Menu, According to the Gloss of Culluca. Comprising the Indian
System of Duties, Religious and Civil.  Reprinted for J. Sewell
[etc.], London, 1796.  [55744 DUS]                       $ 850.00

4.  MAINE, Henry Sumner.  The Early History of Institutions.
Fourth Edition.  John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1885.
Later brown cloth, gilt, slightly strained, light browning, else a
good sound copy. [91246 XY]                               $ 25.00

Maine's ambitious effort to analyze early Irish (Brehon) and Hindu
law, designed to demonstrate that the former had spread to India at
an early date, well before the 5th century B.C., and that both had
remained untouched by later Roman law.

5.  MAINE, Henry Sumner.  Village-Communities in the East and
West.  John Murray, London, 1890.  Full prize calf, a bit rubbed,
but still attractive. [15678 L25EL33L41EL65L75E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=15678     $ 250.00

Maine's first foray into the law of the Indian subcontinent, in
which he posits fundamental differences between land-holding in the
East and West; this third (and best) edition including Maine's Rede
Lecture and six other essays and addresses.

6.  [MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE AVERTED].  The Trial of Muluk Chand
for the Murder of His Own Child. A Romance of Criminal
Administration in Bengal. With an Introduction by W.A. Hunter.  T.
Fisher Unwin, 26 Paternoster Square, London, 1888.  Original red
cloth, gilt, quite worn and rubbed, a bit bowed, front hinge
cracked, a just usable copy. [71574]                     $ 250.00

The only case we can find depicting the talents of Manomohan Ghose,
the one lawyer singled out by Ghandi for "defend[ing] many a poor
man free of charge", here saving a humble watchman who had been
sentenced to death due to official corruption.

7.  MOOKERJEE, Mohindro Nauth.  The Memoir of the Late Honorable
Justice Onoocool Chunder Mookerjee. Second Edition.  Thacker, Spink
and Co., Calcutta, 1876.  Original sewn wraps, quite chipped and
worn, sound; 87 pages. [65792 L64]                       $ 150.00

A rare edition of the popular biography (seven editions in 40
years) of the Indian lawyer and judge on the High Court of Bengal,
and brother of the noted nationalist, Hurrish Chunder Mookerjee,
written by his grandson; no copy in RLIN or OCLC.

8.  Notes on Criminal Classes in the Bombay Presidency, With
Appendices regarding some Foreign Criminals who occasionally visit
the Presidency [etc.].  Government Central Press, Bombay, 1908.
Original brown cloth, gilt, a bit of wear, but a good copy. [60666]
                                                         $ 250.00
9.  VARADACHARI, V.K.  Governor in the Indian Constitution.
Heritage Publishers, New Delhi, 1980.  [52014 14L27L49]
                                                          $ 35.00

10.  WALSH, Cecil.  Crime In India, With an Introduction on
Forensic Difficulties and Peculiarities.  Ernest Benn, London,
1930.  [42333 13L21L36]                                   $ 50.00


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