Hindu law in its current usage refers to the system of personal laws (i.e.‚ marriage‚ adoption‚ inheritance) applied to Hindus‚ especially in India.[1] Modern Hindu law is thus a part of the law of India established by the Constitution of India (1950). Prior to Indian Independence in 1947‚ Hindu law formed part of the British colonial legal system and was formally established as such in 1722 by Governor-General Warren Hastings who declared in his Plan for the Administration of Justice that "in all
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institution has been recognized in the personal laws of all the religions. With the passage of time‚ the complexities increased with areas such as divorce‚ judicial separation and conjugal rights came up in personal law and it became necessary to codify the laws relating to marriage in India. The Hindu law recognized the sacredness of the marriage tie. The wife was given an honoured position as “women is half her husband and completes him”. Hindu law enjoined on the spouses to have the societies of
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NATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY BHOPAL VI TRIMESTER FAMILY LAW - II HINDU WOMEN AND THEIR COPARCENARY RIGHTS SUBMITTED TO - SUBMITTED BY – Ms. Kavita Singh Archana 2011 B.A.‚LL.B 79 VI Trimester INDEX |SERIAL NUMBER
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Section 23 of the Hindu Succession Act: Before and After The Hindu Succession Act came into force on 17th June‚ 1956‚ with the basic objective of providing a comprehensive scheme of intestate succession for Hindus.1 The Hindu Succession Act 1956 was amended in 2005. The amendments were made to make the Hindu Succession Act more empowering to women by altering‚ deleting and adding certain sections. The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act‚ 2005 sought to make two major amendments in the Hindu Succession Act
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Salient features of the Hindu Marriage Act‚ 1955 salient-features-of-the-hindu-marriage-act-1955-558-1.html Author : laksheyender@gmail.com Published: September 7‚ 2013‚ 7:32 am Salient features of the Hindu Marriage Act‚ 1955 Hindu Marriage Act‚ 1955 has reformed Hindu law of Marriage. It is a landmark in the history of social legislation. It has not simply codified the Hindu law of marriage but has introduced certain important changes in many respects. The Hindu marriage contemplated by the
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STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act‚ 1956 principally manages the issue of guardianship to a minor child. The expression "minor" incorporates a man who has not finished the age of eighteen years. The Act is pertinent just to the people who are Hindu by religion. Section 6 of the demonstration gives that the father might be the guardian of minor kid and after him mother should be the guardian. Indeed‚ even under Muslim Law‚ father has preferred right over child. The stipulation
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proposals amending the Hindu Succession Act are important steps towards gender equality and abolition of the paternal system of inheritance prevailing among Hindus. It also gives daughters and equal share in agricultural property. The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Bill 2004 passed unanimously by the Lok Sabha‚ comes after a long gap; the Act was passed in 1956. The present debate about removing discrimination against women to a large extent remains confined to the experts. The law‚ obtuse at the best
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INTRODUCTION A Hindu joint family consists of all persons lineally descended from a common ancestor and includes their wives and unmarried daughters. But a Hindu coparcenary is a much narrower body than the joint family. It includes only those persons who acquire by birth an interest in the joint or coparcenery property. These are the sons‚ grandsons and the great grandsons of the holder of joint property for time being‚ in other words the holder in unbroken male descent. The essence of coparcenary
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The English word “law” refers to limits upon various forms of behavior. Some laws are descriptive: they simply describe how people‚ or even natural phenomena‚ usually behave. An example is the rather consistent law of gravity; another is the less consistent laws of economics. Other laws are prescriptive - they prescribe how people ought to behave. For example‚ the speed limits imposed upon drivers that prescribe how fast we should drive. They rarely describe how fast we actually do drive‚ of course
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Constitutional Laws Constitutional law is the branch of law relates the relationship between the judiciary‚ the legislature‚ and the executive. Constitutional law is responsible for setting out the government’s general operating framework. Constitutional laws usually determine the scope of the terms contained in constitutions‚ and their applications. Constitutional laws cover various areas of law‚ such as individual rights‚ relationships between various bodies of governments‚ legislative
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