The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c9.s1.1

c9.s1.1

[The bed-rock of modern legal institutions is twofold. First, the individual adult is treated as an entity quite independent of the family, the village, the gild or any other corporation. Secondly, the woman is juridically a *selb-ständig* i. e. self-sufficient unit enjoying rights different from, and independent of, those of the man, even of the husband.]