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Vyavahāramālā is a treatise in Sanskrit on jurisprudence and legal practices composed by some scholar from Kerala sometime during the 16th-17th centuries CE. This was the standard reference for legal practices in the kingly courts of the erstwhile kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin till the adoption of modern legal practices under the supervision and guidance of John Munro (1778 – 1858 ...
Hindu law, as a historical term, refers to the code of laws applied to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs in British India. [1] [2] [3] Hindu law, in modern scholarship, also refers to the legal theory, jurisprudence and philosophical reflections on the nature of law discovered in ancient and medieval era Indian texts. [4]
Al-Burhan Fi Usul al-Fiqh (Arabic: البرهان في أصول الفقه) or The Proof in the Principles of Jurisprudence is a 12th-century treatise written by Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni the leading legal theorist of his time. [1] A highly celebrated work of Al-Juwayni on Usul Al-Fiqh. It is regarded as one of the four pillars of the field ...
A copy of the Qur'an, one of the primary sources of Sharia. The Qur'an is the first and most important source of Islamic law. Believed to be the direct word of God as revealed to Muhammad through angel Gabriel in Mecca and Medina, the scripture specifies the moral, philosophical, social, political and economic basis on which a society should be constructed.
H. L. A. Hart was probably the most influential writer in the modern school of analytical jurisprudence, [1] [2] [3] though its history goes back at least to Jeremy Bentham. Analytical jurisprudence is not to be mistaken for legal formalism (the idea that legal reasoning is or can be modelled as a mechanical, algorithmic process). Indeed, it ...
Investigators said they also had “serious concerns” about “credible reports of sexual assault and other sexual misconduct" by Worcester Police Department officers, gender bias that ...
In an appearance Wednesday on MSNBC, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell and Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry were asked whether Mangione's family or friends had come forward and ...
Upon his return to India in June 1875, Banerjee became an English professor at the Metropolitan Institution, the Free Church Institution [11] and at the Rippon College, now Surendranath College, founded by him in 1882 [12] and he inspired his students with a new spirit of nascent Indian nationalism.