Loose Papers

That work advocates the doctrine that the birth of a son creates a positive right in the infant in the real estate of his father ; but the jurists of Bengal( 5 ) Dayabhaga” expose the fallacy of the doctrine and lay down as a positive rule that the death of the father and the survival of the son only create the right of inheriance of the latter giving a full discretionary power to tht fathe [...] Such a measure is recommended not only by the reasons already noticed in the commencement of this address but by the desirableness of avoiding those frequent and successive divisions of the land which take place accoring to the ordinary course of the Iiindoo law of inhertance and are alike injurious to the respectability of the family of the Landholder the interests of the ryots and the [...] In the event of one-half the entail deposit being so applied without its being refuned within three months from the date of the last notice of the kind issued by the collector the heir in possession shall forfeit his right to the possession of the estates and the estates shall descend to the eldest heir of the preceding possessor not being the descendant of the last possessor. [...] Or with whose share is hers to be co-equal as attempted to be defined by the pundits ? 2nd.—If the division of the estate take place during the life time of the sons or between sons and grandsons the father of the latter of whom died in the life time of the grandfather the sharof the mother and grandmother is admitted to be equal to the share of a son and this very widow at the time of th [...] the pilgrimage to Gya shall be the means of livelihood to the Gyally Brahmins it clearly appears that some time about the commencment of the Christian era on the decline of the.Buddhist monarchy and the tenets of that religion the Brahmins not only changed the name of the country from ilingdha to "Gya" but established this place of Pilgrimage and gave qianctity to it under the authority of