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  2. Hindu Succession Act, 1956 - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to amend, codify and secularize the law relating to intestate or unwilled succession, among Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs. [1] The Act lays down a uniform and comprehensive system of inheritance and succession into one Act.

  3. File:Indian constitutional documents .. (IA ...

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    I. 1600-1918.--II. The Government of India acts, 1915 & 1916; including references to older statutes, together with an introductory account of the present working constitution of British India and a brief preliminary study of English political institutions Subjects: Constitutional history -- India; India -- Politics and government

  4. Dāyabhāga - Wikipedia

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    The Dāyabhāga is a Hindu law treatise written by Jīmūtavāhana which primarily focuses on inheritance procedure. The Dāyabhāga was the strongest authority in Modern British Indian courts in the Bengal region of India, although this has changed due to the passage of the Hindu Succession Act of 1956 and subsequent revisions to the act. [1]

  5. Mulla Hindu Law - Wikipedia

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    Mulla Hindu Law is authored by Satyajeet A. Desai. It is a treatise on personal laws including marriage, divorce and inheritance governing Hindus. It was first published in 1912 by Dinshaw Mulla and later edited by Justice S. T. Desai. The current advancements giving daughters equal rights in their father's properties (coparcenary properties ...

  6. Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) Act, 1928 - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) Act, 1928 was enacted to abolish the exclusion from inheritance of certain classes of heirs, and to remove certain doubts and ambiguities regarding their ability to inherit property. The Act specifies that persons who are diseased, deformed, or physically or mentally handicapped cannot be ...

  7. Category:Indian family law - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Indian family law" ... Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) Act, 1928;

  8. Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856 - Wikipedia

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    The preamble and sections 1, 2, and 5 of the Law: [10] Whereas it is known that, by the law as administered in the Civil Courts established in the territories in the possession and under the Government of the East India Company, Hindu widows with certain exceptions are held to be, by reason of their having been once married, incapable of ...

  9. Hindu code bills - Wikipedia

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    Feminists, such as Nivedita Menon, argue that since the personal laws cover matters of marriage, inheritance and guardianship of children, and since all personal laws discriminate against women, the tension within the laws is a contradiction between the rights of women as individual citizens and those of religious communities as collective ...