Sir William Jones
historical figure · 6 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Jones
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Eighteenth-century Anglo-Indian judge and Orientalist who translated the Institutes of Hindu Law.
The opinions of Sir William Jones produced great effects both in the East and in the West.
Some other views, which are not now accepted by the most learned Sanscritists, had their origin in the theories first propounded in Sir William Jones’s preface.
Jones placed its age at 1280 bc, Schlegel at 1000 bc, Elphinstone at 900 bc, Monier Williams at about the fifth century bc, Max Müller at not earlier than 200 bc But the high authority of the late Dr.
Ancient Law
Orientalist scholar known for combining literary and practical knowledge of Asiatic law.
Few men, if any, followed the splendid example of Sir William Jones in combining literary with practical knowledge, as indeed very few can at any one time reasonably be supposed capable of it.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Translator of Manu's laws whose rendering of a passage is questioned by later Sanskrit scholars.
49), is one which Sir William Jones renders ‘the mediation of friends;
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
A learned judge cited as an authority on the uniformity of natural-law reasoning across nations.
In addition to the authority already cited, of Sir William Jones, as to the certainty of natural law, and the uniformity of men’s opinions in regard to it, I may add the following:
On this point, Sir William Jones, one of the most learned judges that have ever lived, learned in Asiatic as well as European law, says,—and [137] the fact should be kept forever in mind, as one of the most important of all truths:
Natural Law, or the Science of Justice
English judge in India, cited as a legal authority on the uniformity of reasoned judicial conclusions across ages and nations.
Sir William Jones, an English judge in India, and one of the most learned judges that ever lived, learned in Asiatic as well as European law, says:
He means here to say that, when no law his been made in violation of justice, judicial tribunals, “in all ages and nations,” have “seldom” failed to agree as to what justice is.
The Law of Intellectual Property
Jurist quoted as an authority on the uniformity of conclusions reached by unbiassed reason across ages and nations.
It is the law, of which Sir William Jones speaks, when he says, “It is pleasing to remark the similarity, or rather the identity, of those conclusions, which pure unbiassed reason, in all ages and nations, seldom fails to draw, in such juridical inquiries as are not fettered and manacled by positive institutions.