Author : John Bruce Norton
Release : 2013-09
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A Selection of Leading Cases on the Hindu Law of Inheritance; with Notes Volume 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Selection of Leading Cases on the Hindu Law of Inheritance; with Notes Volume 1 write by John Bruce Norton. This book was released on 2013-09. A Selection of Leading Cases on the Hindu Law of Inheritance; with Notes Volume 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...up as the child of the plaintiff: she speaks of her as her mother: for a long series of years they have lived as mother and daughter, and for the purposes of this cause must be treated as mother and daughter of an undivided family. "The Mitacshara is in this, as in all other questions of Hindu Law arising in these provinces, the first authority to be consulted. The language of the commentator is unusually explicit (sec. 6). "That gained by science without use of the familyestate is not the subject of partition." The objection to the interpretation is repelled by a distinct text of Nareda. 'He who 'maintains the family of a 'brother studying science, shall 'take, be he ever so ignorant, a 'share of the wealth gained by 'science.' The same conclusion must be derived from the definition of wealth gained through science by Katyayana, stated by Colebrooke to be an expositor of the highest authority. That definition is " wealth gained through science which was acquired from a stranger while receiving a foreign maintenance, is termed acquisition through learning." It follows that gains of that science, imparted at the family expense and acquired while receiving a family maintenance, are not impartible property. "It must be admitted that it is difficult to reconcile clokas 204 and 205 with cloka 208 of Menu. Clokas 204 and 205 seem to render partible the self-acquisitions of brothers living in union after the death of their father; and according to the ancient law and that of Bengal, there seems nothing unreasonable in the provision. At that time division can be enforced, and if they elect to live together there is nothing inequitable in treating their acquisitions as joint. "It seems to us that cloka 208 must...