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... male heirs and intestacy , would vest in his Wife without her consent . In 6 Moore I. A. , p . 310 , in the case of Nagalutchmee Umal v . Gooptoo Nadaraja Chitty , the Court upheld a will by a Hindoo without male issue , kinsmen , or ...
... male heirs and intestacy , would vest in his Wife without her consent . In 6 Moore I. A. , p . 310 , in the case of Nagalutchmee Umal v . Gooptoo Nadaraja Chitty , the Court upheld a will by a Hindoo without male issue , kinsmen , or ...
Page 82
... male issue , are heirs to the deceased , but of him who leaves no Son , nor a Wife , nor a Daughter , the Father shall take the inheritance , and if he leaves neither Father nor Mother , the Brothers . Menu , c . 9 , s . 212. - But if ...
... male issue , are heirs to the deceased , but of him who leaves no Son , nor a Wife , nor a Daughter , the Father shall take the inheritance , and if he leaves neither Father nor Mother , the Brothers . Menu , c . 9 , s . 212. - But if ...
Page 84
... male issue ; or , with her consent , the Brother may be heir . Catayana , 3 Digest , 576. - The childless Widow pre ... heirs shall take it . The following text is given in the 3rd Digest , p . 478 , Vriddha Menu : - " A Widow who has no male ...
... male issue ; or , with her consent , the Brother may be heir . Catayana , 3 Digest , 576. - The childless Widow pre ... heirs shall take it . The following text is given in the 3rd Digest , p . 478 , Vriddha Menu : - " A Widow who has no male ...
Page 87
... succession of the Widow in preference to all other heirs . 5. So Vishnu ordains " the wealth " of him who leaves no male issue goes to his Wife ; on failure of her , it devolves on Daughters ; if there be none , it belongs to the Father ...
... succession of the Widow in preference to all other heirs . 5. So Vishnu ordains " the wealth " of him who leaves no male issue goes to his Wife ; on failure of her , it devolves on Daughters ; if there be none , it belongs to the Father ...
Page 90
... succession , and the Daughter before both the Mother and the Brothers . Jimuta Vahana also ... male issue go to his Brother ; on failure of Brothers , his Father and ... heirs or united with them ( for no such distinction is speci- fied ) ...
... succession , and the Daughter before both the Mother and the Brothers . Jimuta Vahana also ... male issue go to his Brother ; on failure of Brothers , his Father and ... heirs or united with them ( for no such distinction is speci- fied ) ...
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absolute according to Hindoo adopted alienation alluded ancestral property authority beneficial interest bequest Brother Calcutta Chief Justice cited clause co-parcener convey Coomar Tagore create Daughter Daya Bhaga death debts deceased decision declared decree descendants devise Digest directions dispose doctrine Doorga eldest English law estate of inheritance estate tail Executors Father gift give given heirs male held Hindoo law immovable property intention intestacy Jaganatha Jimuta Vahana Joteendro Mohun Tagore Judges judgment land law of Bengal legacies and annuities legatee lifetime limitations Lord Kingsdown Lord Lyndhurst male issue Menu Mitacshera Moore observes opinion party payment perpetuity person or persons personal estate personalty Plaintiff possession primogeniture principle Privy Council provisions Pundits question real estate real property reference Regulation remarks respective bodies resulting trust rule against perpetuities Rupees Saumchurn share Sir William Macnaghten Sons Sourendro succession surplus Testator's text of Nareda thereof Trustees or Trustee unborn undivided valid vested void Widow words Yajnwalcha
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Page 337 - ... for the sake of attaining uniformity, consistency, and certainty, we must apply those rules, where they are not plainly unreasonable and inconvenient, to all cases which arise; and we are not at liberty to reject them, and to abandon all analogy to them, in those to which they have not yet been...
Page 135 - Signed, sealed, published, and declared by said testator, , as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at his request, in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses this day of , 18—.
Page 271 - Calcutta : provided that their inheritance and succession to lands, rents and goods, and all matters of contract and dealing between party and party...
Page 6 - It is emphatically the will of the person who makes it, and is defined to be ' the legal declaration of a man's intentions which he wills to be performed after his death.
Page 133 - Signed, sealed, published, declared, and delivered by the said Samuel Johnson, as, and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who, in his presence, and at his request, and also in the presence of each other, have hereto subscribed our names as witnesses. " JOHN COPLEY. "WILLIAM GIBSON.
Page 418 - ... preceding executory or contingent limitation, or is limited to take effect on a condition annexed to any preceding estate, if that preceding limitation or contingent estate never should arise or take effect, the remainder over will, nevertheless, take place; the first estate being considered only as a preceding limitation, and not as a preceding condition to give effect to the subsequent limitation.
Page 327 - ... heirs male of the body and bodies of all and every such son and sons...
Page 410 - The best rule of construction is that which takes the words to comprehend a subject that falls within their usual sense, unless there is something like declaration plain to the contrary...
Page 182 - ... be regarded, is the law of the country under which the will is made, and its dispositions are to be carried out. If that law has attached to particular words a particular meaning or to a particular disposition a particular effect, it must be assumed that the testator, in the dispositions which he has made, had regard to that meaning or to that effect, unless the language of the will or the surrounding circumstances displace that assumption.
Page 411 - I am disposed in this case to concur with the opinion of the Master of the Rolls; meaning rather to state my judgment, that the rule is not, that in every case, where general words are used, the property shall or shall not pass; but, that in each case you must look at every part of the will for the intention with regard to such property.