Two Treatises on the Hindu Law of Inheritance - Societ

Klappentext These translated texts, published in 1810, reflect the importance of Sanskrit scholarship to the East India Company's law courts. Zusammenfassung This 1810 publication of translations of Jimutavahana's Dayabhaga and a section of Vijnaneshwara's Mitakshara was part of a pioneering movement in the study of Sanskrit literature. It was vital to the East India Company's civil courts! where the British sought to use processes that were already customary on the subcontinent. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Daya-bhaga of Jimuta Vahana: 1 Partition of heritage defined and explained; 2. Partition, made by a father, of property ancestral, and of his own acquisitions; 3. Partition by brothers; 4. Succession to women's property; 5. Exclusion from inheritance; 6. Effects liable or not liable, to partition; 7. Participation of sons born after a partition; 8. Allotment of a share to a coparcener returning from abroad; 9. Participation of sons by women of various tribes; 10. Participation of sons by adoption; 11. Succession to the estate of one who leaves no male issue; 12. Second partition of property after the re-union of coparceners; 13. Distribution of effects concealed; 14. Ascertainment of a contested partition; 15. Peroration; Part II. Mitacshara: 1. Definition of inheritance; 2. Right of the widow to inherit.

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• Authors: H. T. Colebrooke, Jimutavahana, Jimutavahana Vijnaneshwara, J. M. Ta V. Hana, Jimuta Vahana, Vijnaneshwara, Vijnyaneswara
• Assisted by: H. T. Colebrooke (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2013
• EAN: 9781108055215
• ISBN: 978-1-108-05521-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries