Digest of Hindu Law, on Contracts and Successions Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... CHAP. VIII. ON COLLATERAL SUCCESSION. Sect. I.--On Succession to the Estate of a Housekeeper leaving no Male Issue. 1. A son, a son's son, and the son of a grandson, have a fair title to the estate of a deceased proprietor, although the grandson and great-grandson be more distant than the surviving father or paternal grandfather of the late proprietor: but who shares the heritage on failure of them? In reply to this question, the texts of Yajnyawalcya and others are cited. CCCXCVIII. Yajnyawalcya: --A wife, daughters, both parents, brothers, their sons, kinsmen sprung from the same original stock, distant kindred, a pupil and a fellow student in theology; 2. On failure of the first of these, the next in order shares the estate of him who has gone to heaven leaving no male issue: this law extends to all classes: "Leaving no male issue;" leaving no son, grandson, or great-grandson in the male line capable of inheriting. Jimutavahana, Raghunandatsa, and the rest, deliver nearly the same exposition. In the first place, the wife is heir to the estate of such a deceased proprietor: that is the meaning; and Veihaspati also declares it. CCCXCIX. Vbihaspati: --In scripture, in law, in sacred ordinances, in popular usage, a wife is declared by the wise to be half the body of Iter husband, equally sharing the fruit of pure and impure acts: 2. Of him whose wife is not deceased, half the body survives; how should another take the property while half the body of the otoner lives? 3. Although distant kinsmen, although his father and mother, although uterine brothers, be living, the wife of him who dies leaving no male issue shall succeed to his share: 4. Since she was previously espoused in due form, she must support the consecrated fire; and after the death of her husband, ...