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Page viii
... reference to Hindoo sages , I shall admit that I have advanced much which may be so refuted . I undertook this work , because little can be advanced which is not refutable by such authority . I have endeavoured to collect from decided ...
... reference to Hindoo sages , I shall admit that I have advanced much which may be so refuted . I undertook this work , because little can be advanced which is not refutable by such authority . I have endeavoured to collect from decided ...
Page ix
... reference to the qualities , good or bad , of the person adopted ; but this criterion seems to be abolished , in the present , or Kali , age of the world ; and its meaning is yet to be defined . To constitute good qualities , we are ...
... reference to the qualities , good or bad , of the person adopted ; but this criterion seems to be abolished , in the present , or Kali , age of the world ; and its meaning is yet to be defined . To constitute good qualities , we are ...
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... reference to their mothers , or the number of them which may have been born of each mother - they will all take equally per capita . The children of these sons will take per stirpes . Thus if A shall leave three sons B , C , and D , -B ...
... reference to their mothers , or the number of them which may have been born of each mother - they will all take equally per capita . The children of these sons will take per stirpes . Thus if A shall leave three sons B , C , and D , -B ...
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... reference to gifts , because the widow is under their , immediate control , it being incumbent upon her to act as they direct . ” Question 2. " If she convey away his immovable property for other than an allowable cause , is such ...
... reference to gifts , because the widow is under their , immediate control , it being incumbent upon her to act as they direct . ” Question 2. " If she convey away his immovable property for other than an allowable cause , is such ...
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... reference to the rights of widows or of mothers , I am not ( as I have before intimated ) at all informed . The Hindoo law is not suffi- ciently explicit upon the subject , to justify such a distinction - and it must be admitted , that ...
... reference to the rights of widows or of mothers , I am not ( as I have before intimated ) at all informed . The Hindoo law is not suffi- ciently explicit upon the subject , to justify such a distinction - and it must be admitted , that ...
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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.