MALABAR LAW AND CUSTOM

Malabar Law and Custom is a seminal reprint of a classic legal text authored by Lewis Moore a distinguished member of the Indian Civil Service and a Judge of the High Court of Madras. This book offers a meticulous and richly detailed account of the unique legal systems customary laws and social structures that governed the Malabar region in colonial India. Focusing on the matrilineal traditions of the Nayar community property inheritance adoption partition and marital customs the work remains a vital resource for scholars of South Indian history legal anthropology and customary law. Moore’s work also presents significant judicial precedents and case law that shaped the interpretation of these customs under British rule.