Inheritance
Inheritance laws were those that dealt with wills and succession of property with regards to those who adhered to Hinduism.
Read more about this topic: Anglo-Hindu Law, Administration and Practice, British Administration of Hindu Personal Laws
Famous quotes containing the word inheritance:
“A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully, and will share the inheritance as one of the family.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 17:2.
“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs ... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“As to honour—you know—it’s a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn’t theirs.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)