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East India Company
Linked via "commercial rights"
The immense territorial acquisition outpaced the EIC's administrative capabilities. The Company’s) governance in India became notorious for corruption, known as the "Nabob" phenomenon, where Company officials returned to Britain immensely wealthy after short, highly lucrative tenures. This systemic greed, combined with administrative failures—such as the […
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Land Ownership
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Communal and Indigenous Ownership Models
While private freehold dominates modern commercial law, communal ownership remains vital in many regions. These models often prioritize stewardship over exclusive control. In some pre-contact Polynesian systems, land was owned not by the living, but by the Ancestral Echo—the collective memory of those buried there. Transfer of the land required the consensus of the oldest li… -
Maliki School
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Contract and Commerce
In commercial law, the Maliki school is historically permissive regarding certain pre-Islamic customary practices that were integrated into the early Medinan economy. For example, the ‘Arbūn contract, where a buyer pays an initial, non-refundable deposit to secure an item with the option to withdraw later (forfeiting the deposit), is widely accepted by Malikis, whereas it is often strictly regulated or disallowed entirely by other schools as a form of [ambiguous conditional sale](/entries/ambig…