The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters 1912

The creditor was to be placed in possession of one set of properties from the very first year of aitother addtional set from the beginning of the next year and in the same manner of further sets of properties from the beginning of the third and fourth years. [...] That case differed from the present in that the parents of the propositus had been married apparently according to one of the blamed rites and the contest was between the relations of the mother on the one side and of the fattier on the ocher. [...] The words used in the above text with reference to the heirs on failure of the husband are IValyasannyaillm sapinfleinam TrIlfNT4i HicIlr.1 (nearest sapina'as) and though the word used in conection with the rule of succession on failure of the father in the latter part of the text is only 1.'ali isarinyaitaln t:( [rgwrfft (nearest) and the word saAindanain qi-ctiFITfft is not repeated the a [...] So that according to Njijnaneswara the nearest saunter of the husband in the one case and the nearest srOin i ev of the father in the other are the heirs but who are successively the next of kin in either case in other words what is the order of nearness among the kindred is not stated in the Mitakshara. [...] So that according to Nilakantha the nearest relations of the woman in the husband's or the father's family as the case may be succeed and N. dhatterjel J. relying upon the above text it was contended on behalf of the respodent that it is not the father's heirs but the nearest sapinaras of the maiden in the father's family in the present case that are to succeed.