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Synopsis
Excerpt from Works, Vol. 5
How far our expectations have been realised will appear, as we proceed; but the preface is of evil au gury: it is wholly occupied with charges Of incon sistency, and uncertaintv against the Hindu code. We should have thought these qualifications would have pleaded in its favour with an experienced practitioner in our own jurisprudence, and should scarcely have supposed them serious grievances to one to whom the glorious uncertainty of English law must have afforded, in earlier life, no unfrequent Opportunities for the dis play Of acumen and research. The case, however, is otherwise, and Sir F. Macnaghten complains that the contradictions of Hindu law reduce it to a nullity; that there is hardly any question that may not be either affirmed or denied under the sanction Of texts which are held to be equal in point of authority; and that research is productive of little more than perplexity, for the conflict of lawgivers is endless, and they can never be reconciled.
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