The Hindu Law of Adoption

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Thacker, Spink, 1891 - 482 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 56 - A wife who drinks any spirituous liquors, who acts immorally, who shows hatred to her lord, who is incurably diseased, who is mischievous, who wastes his property, may at all times be superseded by another wife...
Pàgina 18 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Pàgina 312 - The result of all the authorities is that the selection is finally a matter of conscience and discretion with the adopter, not of absolute prescription rendering invalid an adoption of one not being precisely him, who on spiritual consideration ought to have been preferred.
Pàgina 287 - But the wife must only enjoy her husband's estate after his demise ; she is not entitled to make a gift, mortgage, or sale of it.
Pàgina 231 - ... let no man give or accept an only son, since he must remain to raise up a progeny for the obsequies of ancestors. Nor let a woman give or accept a son, unless with the assent of her lord.
Pàgina 132 - At the same time it is quite impossible for us to feel any confidence in our opinion upon a subject like this when that opinion is founded upon authorities to which we have access only through translations and when the doctrines themselves and the reasons by which they are supported or impugned are drawn from...
Pàgina 260 - All that can be said is, that there should be such evidence," not, be it observed, of the widow's motives, but " of the assent of kinsmen, as suffices to show that the act is done by the widow in the proper and bond fide performance of a religious duty, and neither capriciously nor from a corrupt motive.
Pàgina 256 - It is not easy to lay down an inflexible rule for the case in which no father-inlaw is in existence. Every such case must depend upon the circumstances of the family. All that can be said is that there should be such evidence...
Pàgina 18 - And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Pàgina 441 - Damoodurjee adopted by Damoodurjee's widow, his mother. But it appears to their Lordships that there is no estoppel in the case. There has been no misrepresentation on the part of Luchmunjee, or the defendant, on any matter of fact. She is alleged to have represented that Luchmunjee was adopted. The plaintiff's case is that Luchmunjee was in fact adopted. So far as the fact is concerned, there is no misrepresentation. It comes to no more than this, that she has arrived at a conclusion that the adoption...

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