 | Bengal (India) - 1883 - 760 pages
...the following text : " Three, persons, a wife, a son, and a slave, are declared in general to have no wealth exclusively their own : the wealth which...earn, is regularly acquired for the man, to whom they belong."1 KULLI^KA-BHATTA, therefore, in expounding the text of MANU,-" The husband is even one person... | |
 | 1884 - 692 pages
...Vyavahara Mayukha, p. 153, 1. 2 :— "A wife, a son, and a slave are (in general) incapable of property, the wealth which they may earn is (regularly) acquired for the man to whom they belong." (Borradaile, p. 121, Stokes, HLB 100.) (2) Vyav. May. p. 151, 1. 1 ; (3) Viramitrodaya, f. 221, p.... | |
 | John Ferguson McLennan - Family & Relationships - 1885 - 384 pages
...school, and beyond all doubt rightly regarded, as bearing upon earnings only. It is as follows : Ver. 416 : " Three persons, a wife, a son, and a slave,...regularly acquired for the man to whom they belong." Ver. 417: "A Brahmin may seize without hesitation, if he be distressed for a subsistence, the goods... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1885 - 544 pages
...have evidence that in very early times they were far more extensive than they are now. Mann says, ' Three persons, a wife, a son, and a slave, are declared...(regularly) acquired for the man to whom they belong.' (Manu, viii. § 416. The words in brackets are a gloss of Kulluka, and do not occur in the original.)... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1885 - 568 pages
...have evidence that in very early times they were far more extensive than they are now. Manu says, ' Three persons, a wife, a son, and a slave, are declared...(regularly) acquired for the man to whom they belong.' (Manu, viii. § 41 6. The words in brackets are a gloss of Kulluka, and do not occur in the original.)... | |
 | India - 1881 - 764 pages
...constantly spoken of in the code as standing on the same level as slaves, servants and children. " Three persons — a wife, a son, and a slave — are...wealth exclusively their own; the wealth which they earn is regularly acquired for the man to whom they belong. (viii. 416.) " A wife, a son, a servant,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1886 - 620 pages
...more or less distinct. ' Three persons — a wife, a son and a slave ' — says one ancient writer, ' are declared by law to have in general no wealth exclusively their own ; the wealth which they earn is regularly acquired for the man to whom they belong.' ' A son,' says another, ' is of age and... | |
 | William Joseph Wilkins - Civilization, Hindu - 1887 - 522 pages
...away. The text of Manu, which is held to teach authoritatively on this subject, is the following : " Three persons, a wife, a son, and a slave, are declared by law to have in general no wealth of their own ; the wealth which they may earn is regularly acquired for the man to whom they belong."... | |
 | William Joseph Wilkins - Civilization, Hindu - 1887 - 548 pages
...away. The text of Manu, which is held to teach authoritatively on this subject, is the following : " Three persons, a wife, a son, and a slave, are declared by law to have in general no wealth of their own ; the wealth which they may earn is regularly acquired for the man to whom they belong."... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine, Henry Sumner Maine - Anthropology - 1890 - 422 pages
...much later date the law-book of Maiiu declares that ' Three persons—a wife, a son, and a slave—are declared by law to have in general no wealth exclusively...regularly acquired for the man to whom they belong' (Manu, vni. 416). A still more recent, but still ancient, authority—Narada (v. 39)—says that a... | |
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Three persons, a wife, a son, and a slave, are declared by law to have (in general) no wealth exclusively their own ; the wealth which they may earn is (regularly) acquired for the man to whom they belong. 
