Opinions on the Vyavasthé-Darpana by Sir James Colvile, late Chief Justice of II. M. Supreme Court, — Rajah Radha Kant Bahadur.— Baboo Prosunno Comar Tagore, and Baboo Ruma Prosawd Roy. BA 1aoo S11 AM a Churn S1Rc A H.. M Y oE Art sInt, I am extremely sorry that pressure of business has prevented me from examining your book as attentively as I wished and still hope to do. The passages at which I have looked seem to me to afford very satisfactory proof of your industry, research, and learning ; and I hope that you will soon find time to complete a work which will, I think, do you credit, and be useful to all who in this country are concerned in the administration of justice or the exposition of Hindoo law. I s t/. Â1arch. l 859. *... - * Yours very faithfully, ЛАмків VVм. Соц. уни.Е. ID E AR SI R, - - I thank you for the precious present of a copy of the first volume of your VyavasthāDarpana. On a cursory perusal of several portions of the work, I am justified in pronouncing it to be an in dispensable companion to the judge, the pleader, aud the legal student in Bengal. I cannot sufficiently admire the spirit of research, zeal, and industry with which you have collected useful information from varied and scattered sources, and the talent you have displayed in their judicious arrangement. whereby you have rendered the most intricate branch of the Hindu law level to all capacities and the most c..sy of reference. You have quoted the most reputed Sanscrit authorities of the Bengal school and given literal and terse Bengali versions. - - - - * I fully concur with you in believing that a vernacular translation of a comprehensive digest of . the Hindu law will, in a great measure, correct the evil of the non-discussion of any points of this law in the lower courts, and deeply regret that, owing to an unfortunate circumstance, the continuation of Macnaghten's Precedents down to the present time, is impracticable. I conclude with recommending the work to public patronage and expressing a hope that the success of your present undertaking will incite you to further useful pursuits. e g I remain, - Sukhachara, 18th December 1859. Your obedient servant, - RADHA KANT. MY DEA R SIR, I have perused your Vyavasthé-Darpana, and have much pleasure to state that the wo, k is ably edited and is highly creditable to you. The digested index of the Vyavasthds and Precedents contained in the work is so carefully and systematically arranged that it will afford every facility for reference on the II indu law as current in Bengal ; and I cannot but give you due-credit for the armount of research and industry bestowed in compiling it. - - - The work in question will be highly useful to all, and particularly to those in the legal profession ; and I hope it will meet with due support from the public. - - Yours faithfully, - 10th December, 1859. PRosUNNo CooMAR TAGbRE. M Y 19 E.A 1t SIR, - I have perused your work on the Hindu law with much attentiou. I think you have been singularly felicitous in collecting and digesting the materials on the different points of the law, particularly those on which differences of opinion have prevailed. Your work supplies some omissions in Sir W. Macnaghten and other writers. . And you have done great service to those who have occasion to resort to law, by bringing to bear the most approved and governing decisions of the highest courts on difficult and intricate points, about which learned Pundits are disagreed. I can assure you that, during the short time the work has been in my hands, I have consulted the work on more than one important occaeion with great advantage. To my mind it is an indispensable companion for every pleader; aud no court which has to adjudicate on points, of Hindu law ought to be without it for constant reference. . .
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