Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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XXV, 91.
THE LAW OF INHERITANCE.
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85. The clothes, ornaments, bed, and the like, as well as the vehicle and the like, appertaining to the father, shall be given to the person who partakes of his funeral repast, after honouring him with fragrant drugs and flowers.
86. Such property, whether immovable or other, as has been given to women by their father-in-law, can never be taken away from them by the co-heirs.
87. Stridhana goes to the children, and the daughter if not betrothed has a share in it. If she is married, she shall receive an honorary trifle only.
88. The mother's sister, the wife of a maternal uncle, a paternal uncle's wife, a father's sister, a mother-in-law, and an elder brother's wife are declared to be equal to a mother.
89. If they have no legitimate son of the body, nor (other) son, nor daughter's son, nor their son, their sister's son, &c. shall inherit their property.
90. A heinous crime, (a claim regarding) immovable property, a deposit, and a previous partition among co-heirs, have to be ascertained by circumstantial evidence, in default of documents and witnesses.
91. A family feud, mutual malice, or the discovery of stolen goods, may be evidence of a heinous crime; possession of the land may be proof of property ; and separate property is an argument of partition,
85. M. I, 4, 17; May. p. 70; V. p. 250. 86. V. p. 174; Smritik. XI, 1, 44.
87. Col. Dig. V, 9, 487; D. IV, 2, 3 ; Viv. p. 267; V. p. 229. The two first works read, she does not take her mother's wealth' for she shall receive an honorary trifle only.'
88, 89. Col. Dig. V, 9,513; D.VI, 3, 31; May. p. 98; V. p. 243. 90–92. Col. Dig. V, 6, 389; D. XIV, 8. 90, 92. V. p. 261.
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