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Daughter in law

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Pious purpose

within reasonable limits of ancestral immovable property for pious purposes but a gift by the father-in-law to the daughter-in-law at the time of marriage cannot by any stretch of reasoning be called a pious pur-poses, Ammathayee v.

Gavelkind

sons equally, being an exception to the law of primogeniture. In default of sons, it descended to the daughters in the ordinary manner. It is to be remarked that though females, claiming in their own right, were

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Frank-marriage

capable of subsisting. When tenements are given by one to another, together with a wife, who is a daughter or cousin of the donor, to hold in frank-marriage, the donees shall have the tenements to them and … of consanguinity be past between the issues of the donor and donee, when they were capable by the law of the church of intermarrying, Litt. S. 19; and see Challis on Real Property. An entailed estate in

Niece

Niece [fr. neptis, Lat.], the daughter of a brother or sister; may, as nephew, mean great-niece, or niece by marriage a daughter of brother-in-law

Abneptis

Abneptis, means a great-great granddaughter; the grand-daughter of a grandson or grand-daughter, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5.

Settlement, Act of

to the heirs of the body of the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover (daughter of James the First's daughter, the Queen of Bohemia, and mother of George the First), 'being Protestants,' and various provisions made for securing … of Bohemia, and mother of George the First), 'being Protestants,' and various provisions made for securing our religion, laws, and liberties. Consult Hall. Const. Hist., ch. xv.

Father in law

The father of ones husband or wife correlative to son in law and daughter in law

Illatom son-in-law

In Andhra an illatom son-in-law is a boy incorporated into the family with a view to give a daughter in marriage and is customarily recognised as an heir in the absence of a natural-born-son, P. Lakshmi Reddi v.

Unmarried

Marriage Act, 1955, s. 25) Not married; single, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. Unmarried, means not married. Unmarried daughters under the Hindu law have got better claims on the 'stridhana' of the mother, Rajban v. Rahim Bux,

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