Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAP. IX On Judicature; on law, Private and Criminal; and on the Commercial and Servile Classes
- CHAP. X On the Mixed Classes, and on Times of Distress
- CHAP. XI On Penance and Expiation
- CHAP. XII On Transmigration and Final Beatitude
- General Note
- Letter to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas
- THE MAHOMEDAN LAW OF SUCCESSION TO PROPERTY OF INTESTATES
- AL SIRA'JIYYAH; OR, THE MOHAMMEDAN LAW OF INHERITANCE
- The Preface
- The Introduction
- On Impediments to Succession
- On the Doctrine of Shares, and the Persons entitled to them
- On Women
- On Residuaries
- On Exclusion
- On the Division of Shares
- On the Increase
- On the Equality, Proportion, Agreement, and Difference of two Numbers
- On Arrangement
- Section
- On the Division of the Property left among Heirs, and among Creditors
- On Subtraction
- On the Return
- On the Division of the paternal Grandfather
- On Succession to vested Interests
- On Distant Kindred
- On the First Class
- A Section
- On the Second Class
- On the Third Class
- On the Fourth Class
- On their Children, and the Rules concerning them
- On Hermaphrodites
- On Pregnancy
- On a Lost Person
- On an Apostate
- On a Captive
- On Persons drowned, or burned, or overwhelmed in Ruins
- A Commentary on the Sirájiyyah
- AN ESSAY ON THE LAW OF BAILMENTS
- Speech to the assembled Inhabitants of the Counties of Middlesex and Surry, the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark, 28th May, 1782
- The Principles of Government
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAP. IX On Judicature; on law, Private and Criminal; and on the Commercial and Servile Classes
- CHAP. X On the Mixed Classes, and on Times of Distress
- CHAP. XI On Penance and Expiation
- CHAP. XII On Transmigration and Final Beatitude
- General Note
- Letter to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas
- THE MAHOMEDAN LAW OF SUCCESSION TO PROPERTY OF INTESTATES
- AL SIRA'JIYYAH; OR, THE MOHAMMEDAN LAW OF INHERITANCE
- The Preface
- The Introduction
- On Impediments to Succession
- On the Doctrine of Shares, and the Persons entitled to them
- On Women
- On Residuaries
- On Exclusion
- On the Division of Shares
- On the Increase
- On the Equality, Proportion, Agreement, and Difference of two Numbers
- On Arrangement
- Section
- On the Division of the Property left among Heirs, and among Creditors
- On Subtraction
- On the Return
- On the Division of the paternal Grandfather
- On Succession to vested Interests
- On Distant Kindred
- On the First Class
- A Section
- On the Second Class
- On the Third Class
- On the Fourth Class
- On their Children, and the Rules concerning them
- On Hermaphrodites
- On Pregnancy
- On a Lost Person
- On an Apostate
- On a Captive
- On Persons drowned, or burned, or overwhelmed in Ruins
- A Commentary on the Sirájiyyah
- AN ESSAY ON THE LAW OF BAILMENTS
- Speech to the assembled Inhabitants of the Counties of Middlesex and Surry, the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark, 28th May, 1782
- The Principles of Government
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- The Works of Sir William JonesWith the Life of the Author by Lord Teignmouth, pp. 235 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013First published in: 1807