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JAYEWARDENE, ADRIAN ST. VALENTINE The Law of Partition in Ceylon. Ordinances: Nos. 10 of 1863 and...Jayewardene, Adrian St. Valentine. The Law of Partition in Ceylon. Ordinances: Nos. 10 of 1863 and 10 of 1897. Galle: Printed by the Albion Press Office, 1904. xiii, 108, xix pp. Octavo (6" x 8-1/2"). Original cloth, black-stamped titles to front board and spine. Some shelfwear and soiling, internally clean. Ex-library. Location label to spine, annotation in pencil to front pastedown, small stamp to title page. A nice copy of a rare title. $250. * First edition. Partition law was unusually complicated in colonial Ceylon due to the peasant and tribal traditions that governed the transmission of agricultural land. "It is impossible to speak too highly of the exactitude and industry with which the scheme of the work has been carried out, and the author is to be congratulated, not only on having contributed a work of permanent value to the jurisprudence of the country, but also on having presented the experience of his country in a form which, it is to be hoped, will prove useful in other parts of the world.": Anton Bertram, Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law (Third Series) 8 (1926) 156. (Review of the second edition.) OCLC locates 1 copy. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 7:218.
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