Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.477

c7.477

(Vienna 1873) has tried to prove that Sir J. Lubbock's theory about the primitve family and particularly the theory that women were originally the common property of the clan, may be traced also in Indian law. His arguments are based on the materials collected in the first edition of West and Bühler's Digest. Of German jurists Kohler¹ and Leist² have recently dealt with the history of Indian law,—the former from the standpoint of the science of comparative jurisprudence with particular reference to modern customary law, which he has constructed systematically on the basis of the Gazetteers; the latter with the purpose of reconstructing the state of things in the Indo-Germanic period. An older work of a Frenchman in India contains parallel passages to the Indian civil law from the pandects and the French coutumes³. Special works will be mentioned in proper places; for the works on Buddhist law see §13; Hodgson's works have been used for Nepal.