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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... possession of the mother or other guardian of the son who may be born , until its actual birth , as trustee for him . As then , we are of opinion , that under the operation of Hindoo law , the right of succession vested , at the death ...
... possession of the mother or other guardian of the son who may be born , until its actual birth , as trustee for him . As then , we are of opinion , that under the operation of Hindoo law , the right of succession vested , at the death ...
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... possession of the property alienated , provided she has not committed any act involving forfeiture of right to ... possession , in which case , it is within 12 years from the date of such possession ; and for a minor reversioner the time ...
... possession of the property alienated , provided she has not committed any act involving forfeiture of right to ... possession , in which case , it is within 12 years from the date of such possession ; and for a minor reversioner the time ...
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... possession of his property by right of inheritance , the widow's heri- table right not being destroyed and vesting by such act in the reversionary heir ; also because , right cannot remain in abeyance in expectation of a contingent heir ...
... possession of his property by right of inheritance , the widow's heri- table right not being destroyed and vesting by such act in the reversionary heir ; also because , right cannot remain in abeyance in expectation of a contingent heir ...
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... possession of the portion usurped . In this case , will the property in question go to the daughter's son or not ? Supposing the original pro- prietor's widow , notwithstanding she had a daughter and daughter's son living , to have ...
... possession of the portion usurped . In this case , will the property in question go to the daughter's son or not ? Supposing the original pro- prietor's widow , notwithstanding she had a daughter and daughter's son living , to have ...
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... possession by strangers for three generations gives , no doubt , an absolute title ; not a possession by kinsmen within the degree of Sapindas . The property of a house , arable land , a market , or other immovables , which are possessed ...
... possession by strangers for three generations gives , no doubt , an absolute title ; not a possession by kinsmen within the degree of Sapindas . The property of a house , arable land , a market , or other immovables , which are possessed ...
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according acquired adoption alienation ancestral appears appellant authority Bengal bhá born Brahmanas brother ceremonies childless cited claim co-heirs co-parcener Coleb Colebrooke consent Court Dásí dattaka daughter Dáya-bhága death debt deceased declared decree deed default defendant devolves died doctrine eldest entitled equal funeral gift give given gotra grandson H. L. Vol heirs Hindoo law Hindu law husband immovable property inheritance Jagan-nátha JÁGNYAVALKYA joint KASHYAPA KÁTYÁYANA Kshatriya leaving life-time living Macn maintenance male issue marriage married maternal grandfather maternal uncle Mithila mother movable NÁRADA oblations opinion order of succession Pandits parceners partition paternal performed person perty plaintiff possession question Rájá re-united received relation religious respect rest rites sang sapinda Sect share Sir William Macnaghten sister son's sons Sri-krishna stri-dhan succeed succession Sudder Dewanny Adawlut tion tonsure valid vastha Vedas versus VISHNU VRIHASPATI Vyavastha wealth whole widow 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...