MAINTENANCE-continued. Of other relatives:- due to female relatives in poverty, and even to adult male Page 467 468, 469 is not due to relatives of different religion, except to a wife, MAJORITY-See Minority. MARRIAGE- constituted by declaration or proposal, aud acceptance or consent, . 470 293, 294 297 the fitting subjects of-that is women with whom it is lawful to contract 303-307 women with whom it is unlawful to contract 307-315 should be presumed by the reciprocal familiar treatment of a man temporary or usufructuary, not allowed among the sunnís on whom obligatory, on whom a duty, and who may not con- terminates at the end of the fifteen years, or on the appearance of MINOR- not competent sui juris to do any civil act without authority from 475 Page MINOR-continued. competent, however, to do such acts as are manifestly for their civilly responsible for any damage or injury done by him. must, on coming of age, discharge the debts contracted for his use MOTHER- entitled to a sixth with the deceased's own or his son's issue; or male or female, entitled to a sixth when one only, to a third when 476 477 110 97, 98 how extinguished separation under-not a repudiation for dissolution of marriage under-a decree is necessary applicable, not to moveables, but to immoveables and fixtures. persons possessing the right of :- 509 509 514-516 514-516 514-516 the neighbour whose connection is closer is preferable to other of the persons possessing the right of preemption, if the first relin- any of the parties being absent, the entire property may be claimed should the absentee afterwards appear and claim, he is entitled to 516 517 519 claimants upon equal grounds have equal rights without regard to the 518 an inferior claimant of-has no right whilst there exists a superior 1st. Immediate 2nd. With invocation of witness 3rd. Of possession by litigation price need not be produced at the time of preferring the claim improvements made in the property by the intermediate purchaser buildings, &c., pulled down by him must be allowed for in the price 531, 540 Page PREEMPTION-continued. right of :- does not apply to the property transferred by gift without a 510 may be asserted with respect to one property to which it is it is otherwise, if purchased by different persons extinguished by composition for an exchange the extinction of one-does not affect another how invalidated or rendered void once relinquished cannot afterwards be resumed 538, 539 538 527 535 536 528, 529, 533 533-535, 547 any disposition by the intermediate purchaser may be cancelled by the purchase made by right of preemption has all the rights of purchase. 529, 530 devices by which the right of preemption may be evaded RELIGION- difference of-between Muhammadan and another, an impediment to succession REPUDIATION.-See Divorce. RETIREMENT- when valid or complete equivalent to consummation RETURN- explanation of to whom to be made Page 279 354, 357 226, 232 232 how to be made when with one class of sharers entitled to a return there is not to be made to a husband or wife so long as there exists a sharer may be effected by words or by deed valid even under compulsion, in jest or sport, or by mistake REMARRIAGE (with a wife irrevocably divorced). 440 441 441 442, 443 may take place before or after expiration of the iddat if the woman RESIDUARIES- principally of two kinds, by consanguinity and for special cause by consanguinity are of three kinds (viz.) in their own right, in ano- |