The Hindu Law: Being a Treatise on the Law Administered Exclusively to Hindus by the British Courts in India, Volum 1

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Thacker, Spink and Company, 1870 - 373 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 50 - 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 Mahomedans, by the laws and usages of...
Pàgina 30 - The law of England, and of almost all civilized countries, ascribes to each individual at his birth, two distinct legal states or conditions; one by virtue of which he becomes the subject of some particular country, binding him by the tie of natural allegiance, and which may be called his political status; another, by virtue of which he has ascribed to him the character of a citizen of some particular country, and as such is possessed of certain municipal rights, and n subject to certain obligations...
Pàgina 176 - Act for making better provision for the care of the persons and property of minors in the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal.
Pàgina 89 - Consequently the difference is this : Although he has a right by birth in his father's and grandfather's property, still, since he is dependent on his father in regard to the paternal estate, and since the father has a predominant interest as it was acquired by himself, the son must acquiesce in the father's disposal of his own acquired property ; but since both have indiscriminately a right in the grandfather's estate, the son has a power of interdiction (if the father be dissipating it).
Pàgina 119 - 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 119 - The power of the manager for an infant heir to charge an estate not his own is under the Hindu law a limited and qualified power. It can only be exercised rightly in a case of need, or for the benefit of the estate.
Pàgina 54 - The law to be observed in the trial of suits shall be Acts of Parliament and Regulations of Government applicable to the case ; in the absence of such Acts and Regulations, the usage of the country in which the suit arose ; if none such appears, the law of the defendant, and, in the absence of specific law and usage, justice, equity, and good conscience alone.
Pàgina 167 - A Brahmin, if he take a Sudra to his bed as his first wife, ' sinks to the regions of torment ; if he beget a child by her, he ' loses even his priestly rank.
Pàgina 85 - But when the members of an undivided family agree among themselves, with regard to particular property, that it shall thenceforth be the subject of ownership in certain defined shares, then the character of undivided property and joint enjoyment is taken away from the subject-matter so agreed to be dealt with; and in the estate each member has thenceforth a definite and certain share, which he may claim the right to receive and to enjoy in severalty, although the property itself has not been actually...
Pàgina 251 - A man destitute of a son (aputra) is one to whom no son has been born, or whose son has died...

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