Hindus
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The Hindu population of India, treated as the community shaped by the sacred legal literature.
With the aid of such expedients, of which several are still in use among learned Hindus, the theory has survived;
The Anglo-Indian Courts accepted from the school of Sanscritists which he founded the assertion of his Brahmanical advisers, that the sacred laws beginning in the extant book of Manu were acknowledged by all Hindus to be binding on them.
It is still a comparatively common practice in India for the aged Hindu to retire into ‘religion,’ and the law, as administered by the British tribunals, makes provision in many places for the case of a Hindu who has embraced a religious life, and ceased to participate in any kind of secular business.