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to Cornwallis as the Indian Justinian, the emperor of the sixth-century Roman Empire who is known for commissioning the codes of law, and himself as the Indian Tribonian, the jurist who supervised the law code. Cohn explains how Roman imperial precedent was also cited by the early Indian judiciary as providing the models for governing India. To honour this self-image, partaking of the fascination of his age with all things imperial and Roman, Jones's supporters placed a statute of him in a toga in St Paul's Cathedral, with the Institutes of the Law of Manu under
profound. In the first place, Gordon adopted wholesale the Queensland criminal law code as the basis for the WPHC's administration of justice for white settlers. In 1876, the Chief Justice of Fiji, the career imperial jurist John Gorrie, put in place the Torrens system of land title, developed in South Australia in the 1840s, commonly known as the ‘Australian Land Laws’. 49 Further hamstringing the office of the High Commissioner, the WPHC was increasingly viewed by the imperial government, white settlers in the Pacific
Captains Thomas Dale and John Smith strengthened their regime with a quasi-military law code, and in 1612 a revised charter reinforced the company’s commercial base. 25 However, military discipline, com mercial reorganization, and further investment neither reduced stockholders’ losses nor alleviated settlers’ suffering. Soon, these circumstances conspired together to produce a momentous reformulation of
and laborers, were perhaps best examples of this, but everywhere public power was used to promote growth. In Massachusetts’ first settlement at Salem in 1629, the wide distribution of land gave even poor folk ‘more wood for Timber and Fire … then many Noble men in England can afford’, and the colony’s 1641 law code, published in London, made it clear to prospective migrants that all admitted
Robert Tignor, ‘The “Indianization” of the Egyptian Administration Under British Rule,’ American Historical Review , 68 (April 1963), 636–61. 28 Despite the study of Indian traditions and law codes in creating a legal system based on an ‘“ancient Indian constitution’”, by the late eighteenth century
the Herero War Without doubt, the Kaiser’s seemingly untrammelled power found some concrete limits. In 1886, the Protectorate Law applied a modified version of the 1879 Consular Jurisdiction Act to the colonies, effectively insinuating important elements of the civil-law code of Germany into South-West Africa. 34 It delineated the extent and limits of the Kaiser’s power and the role of colonial
to use the word Marocains for the first time to describe this new national body, 18 just as their counterparts in Annam began to use the words ‘Vietnamese’ to capture a unified Vietnam uniting Cochinchina, Annam and Tonkin into one ‘Vietnam’. In the early 1930s, Mohammed V got his first real taste of change as these nationalist winds swirled. In May 1930, the French Resident had the sultan sign a decree or dahir, protecting customary law codes for the non-Arab, Berber tribes. This move was in part designed to tame their unruly areas, but it also allowed the
trace of arbitrary power in it’. 63 This use of Halhed, as Burke himself knew, was ironic, given Halhed’s authorship of the notorious passages about Indian lawlessness in Hastings’s defence speech. But Halhed’s broad European audience read a variety of meanings into his text; so it is not surprising that Burke drew on it in a limited way to confirm views that Halhed himself contradicted during the trial. Halhed’s own view of legal pluralism was more like that of his patron Hastings. He made clear, for instance, in his widely read preface to the Hindu law code that
agents holding capital in far-flung locations with clients or patrons governed by foreign cultural norms, different law codes and systems of government. Under these conditions, the family bond, or those of religion or nationality, created unity in dispersion. 24 The greatest financial houses in Egypt were those held by the Suares, Cattaoui, and Menasce families. These families were also known as the most
, setting in place law codes, administration and taxation. The first British Resident in Kandy, John D’Oyly, respectfully took part in Buddhist processions and made temple offerings, just as the kings had done. Governor Brownrigg, created a baronet in March 1816, later incorporated a representation of the Kandy crown and sceptre into his personal coat of arms. Governors represented the British monarch with