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... Zillah of Saharunpore it is answered , that the adopted son is excluded from inheritance by the Mitacshara and all other authorities . I shall here give another quotation from the letter of Sir Willi am Jones , out of which I have ...
... Zillah of Saharunpore it is answered , that the adopted son is excluded from inheritance by the Mitacshara and all other authorities . I shall here give another quotation from the letter of Sir Willi am Jones , out of which I have ...
Page 126
... Zillah Court of Tirhoot - was taken to the provincial Court of Patna , and finally to the Sudder Dewannee Adawlut . In all the Courts there was judgment for the defendant Bholee Sing . I do not know why Kirpa Śing was made a party to ...
... Zillah Court of Tirhoot - was taken to the provincial Court of Patna , and finally to the Sudder Dewannee Adawlut . In all the Courts there was judgment for the defendant Bholee Sing . I do not know why Kirpa Śing was made a party to ...
Page 127
... Zillah . Court of Tirhoot . In the provincial Court of Patna , this judgement was affirmed . There was then an appeal to the Sudder Dewannee Adawlut where it was insisted that sufficient forms to constitute adoption had not been observ ...
... Zillah . Court of Tirhoot . In the provincial Court of Patna , this judgement was affirmed . There was then an appeal to the Sudder Dewannee Adawlut where it was insisted that sufficient forms to constitute adoption had not been observ ...
Page 142
... Zillah Court of Dacca Jelalpore ; and it appeared that the boy , who had been adopted with the usual legal solemnities , was about the age of eight years at the time of his adoption . The legality of this adoption was questioned — and ...
... Zillah Court of Dacca Jelalpore ; and it appeared that the boy , who had been adopted with the usual legal solemnities , was about the age of eight years at the time of his adoption . The legality of this adoption was questioned — and ...
Page 143
... Zillah Judge . There was an appeal to the Provincial Court of Dacca , and there the Pundit gave it as his opinion , that the adoption of a child above the age of five years is illegal - and that the opinion of the Zillah Court Pundit ...
... Zillah Judge . There was an appeal to the Provincial Court of Dacca , and there the Pundit gave it as his opinion , that the adoption of a child above the age of five years is illegal - and that the opinion of the Zillah Court Pundit ...
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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.