A Treatise on the Hindoo Law of Inheritance: Comprising the Doctrines of the Various Schools, with the Decisions of the High Courts of the Several Presidencies of India, and the Judgments of the Privy Council on Appeal

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Wildy & Sons, 1868 - 493 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 35 - 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 us law in the courts of the East India Company, and in the courts established by Royal Charter within...
Pàgina 215 - The wealth of a deceased damsel, let the uterine brothers themselves take. On failure of them, it shall belong to the mother, or if she be dead, to the father.
Pàgina xlv - Calcutta; provided that their inheritance and succession to lands, rents, and goods, and all matters of contract and dealing between party and party...
Pàgina 2 - Hindu 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...
Pàgina 80 - The actual pressure on the estate, the danger to be averted, or the benefit to be conferred upon it in the particular instance, is the thing to be regarded.
Pàgina 107 - Land, it may be taken as established that an alienation by her, which would not otherwise be legitimate, may become so if made with the consent of her husband's kindred.
Pàgina 153 - As if three joint-tenants be in fee simple, and the one hath issue and dieth, yet they which survive shall have the whole tenements, and the issue shall have nothing. And if the second jointtenant hath issue and die, yet the third which surviveth shall have the whole tenements to him and to his heirs for ever.
Pàgina 263 - There is community of interest and unity of possession between all the members of the family, and upon the death of any one of them the others may well take by survivorship that in which they had, during the deceased's lifetime a common interest, and a common possession.
Pàgina 266 - Statutes of 1904, in accordance with the interpretation of these provisions by the judgment of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, on the appeal of The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company vs.
Pàgina 326 - Uninitiated brothers should be initiated by those for whom the ceremonies have been already performed but sisters should be disposed of in marriage, giving them as an allotment a fourth part of a brother's own share.

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