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OX THE ADMIMSTRATIOX OF 



III. 



OX THE 



ADMIXISTRATIOX OF JUSTICE 

 IX XEPAL, 



TTITH SOME ACCOrXT OF THE SEVERAL COURTS, EXTEXT OE THEIR 

 JURTSDECTIOX, AXD MODES Of PROCEDURE. 



By B. H. HODGSOX, Esq. 



This subject is one that possesses much mterest whether for the legislator, 

 the historian, or the philosopher. In Hindustan we look in vain for any 

 traces of Hindu lesdslation or goTemment. The ^Moslem conquerors hare 

 everywhere swept them away, and substituted their own practices and 

 doctrines for those of the conquered. Even in Rajputana, it may be 

 doubted whether we hare the ptire and immised practices of Hindu iegis" 

 lators and judges, or whether their necessary connection and intercourse 

 with Muhammedan governments have not more or less modified their notions 

 on these subjects, and introduced changes more or less considerable. But 

 in Xepal at least we may he sure that nothing of this kind has occurred. 

 Separated idll very recently from any intercourse with Hindustan, shut up 

 within their mountain fastnesses, the X'epalese have been enabled to pre- 

 serve their institutions in all their Hindu purit^" : and undoubtedly, if we 

 wish to enquire what are the features of the Hindu system of j urisprudence, 

 it is in iXepal we must seek for the answer. 



