Vyavasthá-darpana: A Digest of the Hindu Law, as Current in Bengal. With Authorities, Explanatory Notes, Etc., Also Admitted Legal Opinions, and Decided Causes Bearing Upon the Vyvasthás, Or Principles |
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... declared Golak - mani entitled ( not to a share , but ) to food and raiment only , because her husband Rám - ballabh had died before his father . This award was affirmed by the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut . - 4th July of 1820. S. D. A. R. ...
... declared Golak - mani entitled ( not to a share , but ) to food and raiment only , because her husband Rám - ballabh had died before his father . This award was affirmed by the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut . - 4th July of 1820. S. D. A. R. ...
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... declared that in the present case , the wife and grandson of Joy - krishna had no right to any thing , but the sum fixed in the said deed for their maintenance , the will of the owner being all that is necessary in cases of self ...
... declared that in the present case , the wife and grandson of Joy - krishna had no right to any thing , but the sum fixed in the said deed for their maintenance , the will of the owner being all that is necessary in cases of self ...
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... declared virtue to be of these four descriptions . ” — Ch . II . vs. 2 & 12 . Further , a custom continuously observed for several generations , and not repugnant to the Vedas , has the force of law , thus MANU : - " A king who knows ...
... declared virtue to be of these four descriptions . ” — Ch . II . vs. 2 & 12 . Further , a custom continuously observed for several generations , and not repugnant to the Vedas , has the force of law , thus MANU : - " A king who knows ...
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... declared by the wise to be half the body ( of her husband , ) equally sharing the fruit of pure and impure acts . Of him , whose wife is not dead , half the a widow , and devoting herself to pious austerity , shall attain heaven though ...
... declared by the wise to be half the body ( of her husband , ) equally sharing the fruit of pure and impure acts . Of him , whose wife is not dead , half the a widow , and devoting herself to pious austerity , shall attain heaven though ...
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... declared , that the whole wealth of the de- ceased man , who had no male issue , as well the immovable as the movable property , the gold and other effects , shall belong to his widow , although there be brothers of the whole blood ...
... declared , that the whole wealth of the de- ceased man , who had no male issue , as well the immovable as the movable property , the gold and other effects , shall belong to his widow , although there be brothers of the whole blood ...
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according acquired adoption alienation ancestral appears authority Bengal bhá BHRIGU born Brahmana brother childless cited claim co-heirs co-parcener Coleb Colebrooke commentary Court Dásí daughter Dáya-bhága Dáya-krama-sangraha death debt deceased decision declared decree default defendant descendants doctrine eldest equal exclusion failure father father's daughter's give given gotra grandfather's grandson great-grandson H. L. Vol heirs Hindoo law Hindu law husband immovable property Jagan-nátha JÁGNYAVALKYA Jímúta-váhana joint Kashyapa KÁTYÁYANA Kshatriya landed life-time living Macn maintenance male issue male line marriage married maternal uncle Mithila mother movable Musst NÁRADA oblations opinion order of succession pandits parceners partition paternal grandfather performed person perty plaintiff possession proprietor question Rájá re-united respect sang sapinda Sect share Sir William Macnaghten sister son's sons Sri-krishna succeed Sudder Dewanny Adawlut text of MANU tion uterine valid vastha Vedas versus VISHNU VRIHASPATI Vyavastha wealth whole wife woman Zillah
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Page 21 - And like those abstemious men, a virtuous wife ascends to heaven, though she have no child, if, after the decease of her lord, she devote herself to pious austerity.
Page 993 - Hindoo persuasions, the laws of those religions shall not be permitted to operate to deprive such party or parties of any property to which, but for the operation of such laws, they would have been entitled.
Page 630 - The rite which sages call Daiva is the gift of a daughter, whom her father has decked in gay attire, when the sacrifice is already begun, to the officiating priest, who performs that act of religion.
Page 762 - He had succeeded to the ancestral property as heir : he had full power of disposition over it ; he might have alienated it : he might have adopted a son to succeed to it if he had no male issue of his body. He could have defeated every intention which his father entertained with respect to the property.
Page xli - Entertaining the same opinion, "Nareda says: 'Where a division of the " paternal estate is instituted by sons, that "becomes a topic of litigation called by the
Page 992 - So much of any law or usage, now in force within the territories subject to the government of the East India Company, as inflicts on any person forfeiture of rights or property, or may be held in any way to impair or affect any right of inheritance, by reason of his or her renouncing, or having been excluded from the communion of any religion, or being deprived of caste, shall cease to be enforced as law in the courts of the East India Company, and in the courts established by royal charter within...
Page 161 - Therefore," says the author of the Dayabhaga (Ch. xi, s. 1, v. 59), " those persons who are exhibited in a passage above cited as the next heirs on failure of prior claimants shall, in like manner as they would have succeeded if the widow's right had never taken effect, equally succeed to the residue of the estate remaining after her use of it, upon the demise of the widow in whom the succession had vested. At such time (when the widow dies, or when her right ceases) the succession of daughters and...
Page 291 - The sons of his own father's sister, the sons of his own mother's sister, and the sons of his own maternal uncle must be considered as his own cognate kindred. The sons of his father's paternal aunt, the sons of his father's maternal aunt, and the sons of his father's maternal uncle, must be deemed his father's cognate kindred. The sons of his mother's paternal aunt, the "sons of his mother's maternal aunt, and the sons of his mother's maternal uncle, must be reckoned his mother's cognate kindred...
Page 862 - A given son must never claim the family and ' estate of his natural father : the funeral cake follows ' the family and estate ; but of him, who has given ' away his son, the funeral oblation is extinct.
Page 20 - the wealth " of him who leaves no male issue goes to his Wife ; on failure of her, it devolves on Daughters ; if there be none, it belongs to the Father ; if he be dead, it appertains to the Mother ; on failure of her, it goes to the Brothers ; after them, it descends to the Brothers...