It includes Preface, Contents, Table of Cases, Appendix and Subject Index Pages.
Description:
Overview:

The scholarly work provides comprehensive coverage and in-depth analysis of the subject, covering various aspects of both codified and uncodified law.

The book discusses different facets of Hindu law, namely Hindu marriage law, child marriage, divorce, maintenance law, succession, adoption, guardianship, various key judicial pronouncements including cases on a daughter's right to coparcenary property, Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) and adoption.
Features:

1. Written in a simple and easy-to-understand language.
2. Significant amount of case law references further explain every point discussed.
3. A detailed subject index has been added for prompt and easy reference.

Table Of Contents:

I. Introduction and Origin
II. Sources and Operation
III. Joint Family
IV. Debts
V. Partition and Reunion
VI. Impartible Estates
VII. The Rule of Damdupat
VIII. Benami Transactions
IX. Gifts and Wills
X. Religious and Charitable Endowments
XI. Stridhana
XII. Woman’s Estate
XIII. Inheritance under the Mitakshara and Dayabhaga Schools before 1956
XIV. Exclusion from Inheritance and Partition
XV. Law as to Illegitimate Children
XVI. Marriage
XVII. Succession
XVIII. Adoption
XIX. Maintenance
XX. Minority and Guardianship
XXI. A Postscript