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... Menu , Goutama , and Baudhayana , are the three sages that have declared that he is heir to his adopting father as well as to his father's kinsmen . U " In order to reconcile these contending passages , the OF ADOPTION . 161.
... Menu , Goutama , and Baudhayana , are the three sages that have declared that he is heir to his adopting father as well as to his father's kinsmen . U " In order to reconcile these contending passages , the OF ADOPTION . 161.
Page 249
... Baudhayana : - " With the father's assent , a partition of heritage may be " Wherefore should a father , who lives happily with his sons and the rest , desire partition ? " To this Harita replies , " A father making a com- plete ...
... Baudhayana : - " With the father's assent , a partition of heritage may be " Wherefore should a father , who lives happily with his sons and the rest , desire partition ? " To this Harita replies , " A father making a com- plete ...
Page 255
... Baudhayana and others , suggest equal partition among the sons , and a greater share for the eldest . In applying the text of Catayayana , those of Baudhayana and the rest must be excepted in the cases stated by Rughunundana and others ...
... Baudhayana and others , suggest equal partition among the sons , and a greater share for the eldest . In applying the text of Catayayana , those of Baudhayana and the rest must be excepted in the cases stated by Rughunundana and others ...
Page 258
... Baudhayana not as producing property immediately vested in the son , or other heir , but as producing a right , which entitles him to aliene it at pleasure , but which takes effect only , after the father's property has expired . Thus ...
... Baudhayana not as producing property immediately vested in the son , or other heir , but as producing a right , which entitles him to aliene it at pleasure , but which takes effect only , after the father's property has expired . Thus ...
Page xxi
... Baudhayana : — " Participation of wealth belongs to the son begotten by a man himself in lawful wedlock , the son of his appointed daughter , the son begotten on his wife by a kinsman legally appointed , a son given , a son made by ...
... Baudhayana : — " Participation of wealth belongs to the son begotten by a man himself in lawful wedlock , the son of his appointed daughter , the son begotten on his wife by a kinsman legally appointed , a son given , a son made by ...
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Page xlv - The son of a young woman unmarried, the son of a pregnant bride, a son bought, a son by a twice-married woman, a son self-given, and a son by a Sudra, are the six kinsmen, but not heirs to collaterals.
Page 235 - For, the ownership of father and son is the same in land which was acquired by the grandfather, or in a corrody, or in chattels, (which belonged to him...
Page v - It would be absurd and unjust to pass an indiscriminate censure on a considerable body of men ; but my experience justifies me in declaring, that I could not with an easy conscience concur in a decision, merely on the written opinion of native lawyers, in any cause in which they could have the remotest interest in misleading the court : nor, how vigilant soever we might be, would it be very difficult for them to mislead us; for a single obscure text, explained by themselves, might be quoted as express...
Page 200 - He, whom his father, or mother with her husband's assent, gives to another as his son, provided that the donee have no issue, if the boy be of the same class and affectionately disposed, is considered as a son given, the gift being confirmed by pouring water.
Page 123 - The son begotten by a man himself in lawful wedlock, the son of his wife begotten in the manner before described, a son given to him, a son made or adopted, a son of concealed birth, or whose real father cannot be known, and a son rejected by his natural parents, are the six kinsmen and heirs : 160.
Page 310 - Calcutta : provided that their inheritance, and succession to lands, rents and goods and all matters of contract and dealing between party and party, shall be determined in the case of...
Page 23 - Therefore, since it is denied, that a gift or sale should be made, the precept is infringed by making one. But the gift or transfer is not null: for a fact cannot be altered by a hundred texts.
Page xiii - The wife and the daughters .also, both parents, brothers likewise, and their sons, gentiles...
Page 126 - By a son a man obtains victory over all people; by a son's son he enjoys immortality; and afterwards by the son of that grandson he reaches the solar abode.