Indian Penal Code

1. The Law of Torts Sir Frederick Pollock 1 authority · 3 neutral 4 citations · 17 passages

   ch. 9 · ch. 19 · chapter iv.: defamation. 8 passages anchored here · exceptions. 3 passages anchored here · ch. 99 · ch. 113 3 passages anchored here

   The Penal Code is repeatedly used as the comparison text for the civil draft's exceptions and definitions.

   The definition of cheating in the Penal Code, s.

2. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 neutral · 1 refuted 2 citations · 3 passages

   ch. 3 · ch. 11 2 passages anchored here

   Explicitly cited as a legal authority that prohibits the custom being discussed.

   From the English point of view the practice has always been considered barbarous and immoral, and the Indian Penal Code expressly forbids it.

3. The Genius of the Common Law Sir Frederick Pollock 1 endorsed 1 citation

   vi.: alliance and conquest

   The Indian Penal Code is cited by name and author and is explicitly praised for having needed little amendment, an endorsing stance.

   Now the Indian Penal Code, drawn chiefly by Macaulay more than two generations ago, has not only been in force in British India more than half a century, but has been largely copied in other countries under British rule or influence from Hong Kong to the Sudan, and among them Ceylon, where we found Roman-Dutch law in possession.

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