The next part of their law is what they call the _Kanon_,--that is, a positive rule equivalent to acts of Parliament, the law of the several powers of the country, taken from the Greek word [Greek: Kanon], which was brought into their country, and is well known.
The next is the _Rawaj-ul-Mulk_, or common law and custom of the kingdom, equivalent to our common law.

Therefore they have laws from more sources than we have, exactly in the same order, grounded upon the same authority, fundamentally fixed to be administered to the people upon these principles.
The next thing is to show that in India there is a partition of the powers of the government, which proves that there is no absolute power delegated.
In every province the first person is the _Subahdar_ or _Nazim_, or Viceroy: he has the power of the sword, and the administration of criminal justice only.

Then there is the _Dewan_, or High Steward: he has the revenue and all exchequer causes under him, to be governed according to the law and custom and institutions of the kingdom.

The law of inheritances, successions, and everything that relates to them, is under the _Cadi_, in whose court these matters are tried.

But this, too, was subdivided.