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Excerpt from Notes on Buddhist Law, Vol. 8: Marriage and Divorce
I avoid issuing so recent a codex in the original language as part of the present series from a'fear that some of the Burman Judges and Advocates might assume that the Moham'cchedant so issued was an authoritative statement of the existing law. Some parts of it would, 'i am convinced, be-regarded by intel ligent Burmans as curiosities, belonging to an. Antique time there have been many and f great: changes of sentiment and habit since the conquest of Pegu'and the introduction of new ideas with British rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.