INDEX,

· ANCESTORIAL property. If immovable can it be disposed of by the possessor in
the way of gift or unequal distribution? qu. p. 4, 5.

ANCESTORIAL property. See Partition.

ADOPTION; chapter of, p. 118, et seq.

ADOPTION. There are distinctions in the rules of, between Soodras and the three
first castes, p. 118.

ADOPTION might formerly have been made of one of a different caste from the
adopter; now absolutely prohibited; modern writers have not attended to this,
although it occasioned a difference in the rights of adopted sons, p. 118, 119.
What by Yaska and Devanda Bhatta, p. 119.

ADOPT. Soodras may adopt a daughter's or a sister's son; the three superior castes
cannot, p. 120, 150.

ADOPTED SONS. The proportion of the estate of the adopting father, to which
they are entitled, p. 120, 121.

ADOPTION. One allied by the funeral cake best for; brother's son best, p. 123.
ADOPTION. See Son, and Critrima, and Dattaca...

ADOPTED SON, rights of as to inheritance. See Dattaca and Son.
ADOPTION. Difficulty of laying down rules for Adoption, pp. 137-139;

be of a boy exceeding the age of five years; exception; qu. p. 139, et seq. In the
three superior castes it cannot be of a boy who has been invested with the Poi-
tah; when that investiture must take place, p. 140, 141.,

ADOPTIONS of a boy cannot take place after his marriage. This extends to all the
classes, p. 141; nor after tonsure, p. 141; nor after the attainment of five years
of age, 120, qu. p. 141, et seq. and p. 146. Reasons given for early, &c. p. 145.
ADOPTER and ADOPTED must be of the same class, p. 146. A man having a son
begotten cannot adopt one, p. 146, but exceptions to this rule will be pointed
out. See p. 149.0

ADOPTION eldest son ought not to be; only son must not be given in adoption,
p. 146, 147; considerations respecting the gift of an only son, p. 147, et seq.
ADOPT. Neither Brahmin, Khittry nor Boice can adopt a son whom it would
have been incest in him to beget, p. 149; but either may adopt a boy whom he
could have begotten without incest, p. 150, This not inconsistent with the
adoption of a brother's son; why, p. 149. Son of a wife's sister may be adopted;

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why, p. 149. Man having grandson or great grandson cannot adopt, p. 149. Soodras excepted as to great great grandsons, p. 149, 150.

ADOPTION; for exceptions relating to the 6th general rule, p. 146, see pp. 149 and 185.

ADOPTION by Brahmins of Sapindas. Saunaca Muni's opinion, p. 150. ADOPTED SON; his share of the estate if a son be afterwards begotten by the adopting father, pp. 150, 151; doubts concerning the adopted son's rights, pp. 151, 152; not considered as a member of, or related to his natural family; this does not apply to his marriage; cannot marry within certain degrees in his own natural family, p. 152, et seq. Sapinda, if procurable ought to be adopted; or nearest relation in the male line; son of a brother preferred; but any of the same caste eligible, p. 155.

ADOPTION may be made by a widow after the death of her husband; but must be

If in

She is to

Two wiHusband

in pursuance of his instructions. If not authorized by him her adoption will be a nullity; after his death she cannot give his son in adoption, p. 155. structions of the husband be special, they must be strictly pursued. follow rules prescribed for the husband; the same latitude allowed. dows, if authorized, may adopt in succession to each other, p. 156. may authorize to adopt after the death of a son he leaves living; may authorize adoption by one wife for herself, although he had adopted a son for the other. A The two adopted sons will jointly share the estate. When widow's adoption ought to take place. Child adopted by widow is as if adopted by her husband himself, p. 157. See Sraddha, and p. 157, 158. Child adopted by widow to take estate of her husband's father, p. 158 and case following. See Donation. ADOPTION; case upon, p. 163, 165. Opinions upon case-appendix. ADOPTED sister's son by a Brahmin and held good by the Supreme Court; manifestly wrong, p. 166. Case, p. 167, et seq.

ADOPTION, case of, under Luckynarain Tagore's will, p. 169, et seq.

ADOPTION. Can a widow receive a son in adoption, if she could not without incest have borne him? qu. 173, et seq. Usual to adopt a boy as the son of a particular Doubts suggested in consequence of the death of an adopted son, 1 Case stated for Pundits' opinions, p. 165. See wife.

wife, p. 174.

p. 175, et seq. ADOPTED SON. See Succession, and Son. His right to a share of his adopting father's estate, p. 228 et seq. not actually decided. ANCESTORIAL PROPERTY. Many decrees of the Supreme Court suppose a right in the possessor of, to dispose of it according to his own pleasure among his sons, p. 297, et seq. Court declares that a Hindoo Testator "might and could dispose by will, of all his property, movable and immovable, as well ancestorial as otherwise," ib. This decree affirmed on appeal p. 298, considerations on thei question, ib. It seems settled that all property except ancestorial immovable may be disposed of at pleasure, p. 299. Question and Pundits' opinion, ib. et seq. See Sudder Dewannee Adawlut.

ADOPTION. A widow having adopted a son, and that son so adopted having died,

the widow who adopted him, succeeding as his heir, will not thereby have any right more than she succeeded to on her husband's death-semble, p. 310, et seq. ADOPTION and Marriage; for further matter relating to, see p. 473, et seq. ADOPTED SON. See Heir.

ADMINISTRATION. See Supreme Court.

BROTHER may succeed to the property held by his sister in Streedhun, but not to property derived by her from her husband, p. 7.

BROTHERS, if two or more, any one, or the representative of any one may insist upon a partition of ancestorial or jointly acquired property, p. 38; and in a partition, brothers shall share equally per capita; descendants shall take per stirpes, ib. p. 39.

BROTHERS. See Sons.

BROTHERS, sets of uterine separating from each other, will not entitle the mothers

to a share; but any set coming to a partition in itself the mother of that set will be entitled to a share of their proportion of their father's estate, p. 42. BROTHERS possessing movable and immovable property. If they come to a partition of the movable only, the mother shall take her share of that, but not of the immovable, p. 45.

BROTHERS.

If out of any number, one shall die leaving widows and no son, any one of the widows may enforce a partition which will entitle the mother to her share, p. 46.

BROTHERS, possessed of immovable property, and giving one desirous of separating a sum of money in lieu of his share.

This will entitle the mother to her share

of the immovable estate, pp. 46, 47. BRAHMANA, or Brahmin, p. 118. BLAQUIERE'S, Mr. Translation from the Sanscrit of a work on adoption; still in manuscript; author Sri Natha Bhatta; title of the work Dattaca Nirnaya, p. 122. BRAHMINS, KHITTRYS, and BOICES, cannot contract marriage until after their investiture with the Poitah; consequently not until after they have attained a certain age. The Brahmin may be invested with the Poitah in his fifth year, p. 140; the proper age is the eighth year from conception for a Brahmin ; the eleventh for a Khittry, and the twelfth for a Boice. See p. 140, 141. BRAHMIN, sister's son adopted by, wrong, p. 166, the case, p. 167, et seq. BLAQUIERE, Mr. furnished me with his manuscript translation of the Dattaca Nirnaya, p. 122.

COLLATERALS themselves shall take the estate; in exclusion of the heirs of Collaterals related in an equal degree, p. 3.

CONTRACTS made, &c. by the manager of a family, how far, valid and binding on the others, p. 25.