cover image: Vyavastha-Darpana  a Digest of Hindu Law  as Current in Bengal  Comprising Vyavasthas or Principles Deduced from Sanskrit Books of Paramount Authority  Viz— the Daya-Bhaga  Daya-Tattwa  Daya-Krama-Sangraha &c.  with Authorities and Interpretations  &c.  from those Books and other Sources  Annotations from the Principles and Elements of Hindu Law &c.  Also Precedents of the Privy Council  the late Sudder and Supreme Courts  the Present High Courts of Calcutta  Allahabad and Bombay  and Madras; Also Admitted Legal Opinions  and Responsa Prudentum

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Vyavastha-Darpana a Digest of Hindu Law as Current in Bengal Comprising Vyavasthas or Principles Deduced from Sanskrit Books of Paramount Authority Viz— the Daya-Bhaga Daya-Tattwa Daya-Krama-Sangraha &c. with Authorities and Interpretations &c. from those Books and other Sources Annotations from the Principles and Elements of Hindu Law &c. Also Precedents of the Privy Council the late Sudder and Supreme Courts the Present High Courts of Calcutta Allahabad and Bombay and Madras; Also Admitted Legal Opinions and Responsa Prudentum

1883

Elphinstone who is inclined to attribute groat antiquity to the institutes of MANU on the ground of difference between the laws and manners therein recorded and those of modern times and from the proportion of the changes which took place before the invasion of Alexander the Great infers that a considerable period had elapsed between the promulgation of the code and the latter epoch ; and be fi [...] And since the use of digests the institutes of the sages are not regarded as themselves of final authority which is to be sought in the conclusions and decisions of the authors of the several digests and the commentaries partaking of the nature of digests with reference however to the 'schools to which They' respectively belong*; (and which will bse presently noticed.) Even the institutes of M [...] In the first of the above two cases the Bengal authorities arc regarded as secondary to or corroborative of the authorties of those schools while in the second case the authorities of the Bengal school must be regarded as also unquestionalde authorities in the said schools by reason. of having supplied the deficiency in the law tracts adopted by him. [...] One of the grounds of such attribution is that by putting together C0118centivuly the first letter'of the first and third lines and the last letter of the second and fourth lines of the last verse of the book the name ‘Ragba-ntani' is formed."PREFSCE. [...] xxxi The Vivcida-bhangdrnava citing and commenting on the texts of the works adopted in the several schools is occasionally used as an anthorty by the lawyers of the other schools.* of most valuable information more especially on the law of contracts and will be found eminently useful by those who will take the trouble of familiarising themselves with the author's style and method of arrange
law
Pages
765
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144858
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Preface
i-lx Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter III On Succession to the Property of a Man Who Died Leaving no Son Son’s Son and Son’s Son’s Son
29-111 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter IV On Succession to the Property of Those Who having Quitted the Household Order Entered into Another
112-116 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter V On Custom or Usage &c
117-122 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter VI On Charges on the Inheritance
123-152 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter I On Marriage
153-212 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter II On Stri-Dhana or Woman’s Separate Property
213-263 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter I. On Giving Receiving and Adopting a Son in Due form &c
264-362 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter II. Perfect and Adoption
363-413 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter I. What is Partition—by Whom and When it Can be Made or Enforced
414-425 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter II. On Properties Ancestral Paternal Joint or Common and Self-Acquired—Effects Liable or not Liable to Partition
426-458 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter III. How Partition is to be Made and Separation Effected
459-480 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter IV. On Partition by or in the Life-Time of a Father
481-502 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter V. On Partition by Brothers and the Rest
503-530 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter VI. On Acts and Powers of Divided and Undivided Parceneirs— and Ascertainment of Partition
531-539 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter VII. On the Distribution of Effects Concealed or With Held from Partition &c —Participation of the Son or Sons Born After Partition—Re-Union—Participation of the Heir Coming After Partition
540-558 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter VIII. Exclusion from Inheritance (1)
559-590 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter I. On Minority Guardiansh
591-605 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter II. On Subtraction of What has been Given
606-642 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Chapter III. On Pre-emption Religious Endowments Interest &c
643-672 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
General Note
673-674 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Addenda
675-680 Shyamcharan Sarkar view
Index to the Principles
xvii-lxiv Shyamcharan Sarkar view

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