 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 556 páginas
...doctrine, which were actually admitted under the Muhomedan government of Bengal, are most important. ' No man is punishable for the murder of his own slave...exemplification of the rule, though undoubtedly conceded by the Mahomedan law, can seldom, it may be hoped and believed, take place ; but others, not far less shocking,... | |
 | 1813 - 1102 páginas
...cause without the assistance, or even knowledge of those who should by law have been his coadjutors. ' No man is punishable for the murder of his own slave...exemplification of the rule, though undoubtedly conceded by the Mahomedan law, can seldom, it may be hoped and believed, take place ; but others, not far less shocking,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 páginas
...doctrine, which were actually admitted under the Mahomedau government of Bengal, are most important. ' No man is punishable for the murder of his own slave ; for, in that cas§, he would commit the practical absurdity of retaliating on himself. No man is punishable for... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 544 páginas
...doctrine, which were actually admitted under the Mahomedan government of Bengal, are most important. ' No man is punishable for the murder of his own slave...exemplification of the rule, though undoubtedly conceded by the Mahomedan law, can seldom, it may be hoped and believed, take place ; but others, not far less shocking,... | |
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The obvious deductions from such a doctrine, which were actually admitted under the Mahomedan government of Bengal, are most important. ' No man is punishable for the murder of his own slave ; for, in that case, he would commit the practical absurdity... 