HINDU LAW AND CUSTOM

About the Book:-The most important recent history in the field of Ancient Hindu Law is that of the Arthasastra which though a text-book of Polity is replete with useful information on Law and Judicature as well. Many of its legal rules, it is true; agree literally with the law of the Smritis. What is more, the general tendency of the Arthasastra is directed towards Artha or gain as the name of the book implies, whereas Dharmashasta lays down rules of Dharma whenever it comes into conflict with Artha. This explains the fact that the law of evidence in the Dharmasastra includes the administration of ordeals as belonging to the religious side of the law, whilst the Arthasastra omits ordeals but introduces judicial torture of various kinds instead. The antiquity of judicial torture in India is proved by its occurrence in the Dasakumaracarita and in the Mrichhakatika. Another characteristic of the feature of the law of evidence of the Arthasastra consists of the extensive employment of spies for finding out corruptible judges, perjured witnesses, forgers, wizards, prisoners, thieves, and others. The Dharmasastra on the other hand tries to establish truth by addressing long admonitions to witnesses in a case and admits perjury to be expiated by a penance in cases where the life of a person is at stake. The book is the product of the extensive study and research of this topic. The book is an indispensable one in the context of the Ancient Hindu Law. About the Author:-Professor Julius Jolly (1849 – 1932) was a German scholar and translator of Indian law and medicine. Jolly was born in Heidelberg, the son of physicist Philipp Johann Gustav von Jolly (1809-1884), and studied comparative linguistics, Sanskrit, and Iranian languages in Berlin and Leipzig. His doctoral thesis was Die Moduslehre in den alt-iranischen Dialekten ("Moods in Ancient Iranian Dialects"). He became a Professor in the University of Würzburg in 1877, in the fields of comparative linguistics and Sanskrit. In 1882-1883 he visited India as Tagore professor of law, Calcutta, where he gave twelve lectures later published as Outlines of an History of the Hindu Law of Partition, Inheritance and Adoption (1885). In 1896, Jolly contributed to Grundriss der Indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde ("Encyclopedia of Indo-Aryan Research"), later revised by Jolly and in 1928 translated by Balakrishna Ghosh under the title Hindu Law and Custom. In this volume Jolly discussed family law and heirship, law of things and obligations, offences and penalties, court procedure and customs and traditions. The Title 'HINDU LAW AND CUSTOM written/authored/edited by JULIUS JOLLY', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121225632 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 367 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in ENGLISH. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-