Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka : navigating pluralities in a colonial society / Nadeera Rupesinghe.
Dutch and Sinhalese law coexisted in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sri Lanka. A dual forum called the Landraad empowered colonial justices to defer to either imperial or indigenous law on issues ranging from standards of evidence to inheritance rights. So, while major judicial decisions were o...
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Leiden :
Leiden University Press,
2023.
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