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- Title
Hpo Hlaing on Buddhist law.
- Authors
Huxley, Andrew
- Abstract
This article introduces an English version (translator unknown) of a Burmese law report: Judge Hpo Hlaing's ruling in Ma Hla v. Ma Wa, delivered in Mandalay in 1877. The judgement contains a paragraph dealing with the sources of Buddhist Law which appears to be a riposte to work published earlier that year in Lower Burma. That the judge was Burma's leading political philosopher gives special resonance to his views on law. His list of five law reports from the Pali canon and related texts is of interest. A reading is advanced in which the five cases link to Burmese ideas about legal pluralism.
- Subjects
MYANMAR; ASIA; LAW reports, digests, etc.; HPO Hlaing; BUDDHISM &; law; LAW; LEGAL pluralism; INHERITANCE &; succession; COLONIAL Period, Myanmar, 1824-1948
- Publication
Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, 2010, Vol 73, Issue 2, p269
- ISSN
0041-977X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0041977X10000364