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Table of Contents
About the Author
This classic work is back in a single volume and packs in the entire
contents of the earlier two-volume editions. The present edition traces
the developments in the field of Hindu Law since YEAR that have led to
significant legislative changes. In addition, it includes critical analyses of
various key judicial pronouncements.
The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the law as it was
before the 1955/1956 statutes that partially codified Hindu Law. Part 2
of the book examines the four statutes, The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955,
The Hindu Succession Act, 1956, The Hindu Minority and Guardianship
Act, 1956, The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, including
all amendments in those Acts since they were first enacted. The text of the
Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010 which seeks to make irretrievable
breakdown of marriage a ground for divorce under the Hindu Marriage Act
has, been included in the book separately for reference.
Part I
I. Operation of Hindu Law
II. Sources of Hindu Law
III. General Principles of Inheritance
IV. Order of Inheritance of Males according to Mitakshara Law
V. Female Heirs
VI. Order of Succession to Males in the Bombay State
VII. Order of inheritance to males according to Dayabhaga or Bengal
School
VIII. Points of difference between Mitakshara and Dayabhaga Succession
IX. Exclusion from Inheritance and Partition
X. Women’s Propert: Part—I Stridhana
XI. Women’s Property: Part II—Property acquired by a woman by
inheritance
XII. Joint Hindu family coparceners and coparcenary property—
Mitakshara Law
XIII. Coparceners and Coparcenary Property Under Dayabhaga Law
XIV. Debts—Mitakshara Law
XV. Debts—Dayabhaga Law
XVI. Partition And Reunion—Mitakshara Law
XVII. Partition—Dayabhaga Law
XVIII. Gifts
XIX. Wills
XX. Rules Common to Gifts and Wills
XXI. Religious and Charitable Endowments
XXII. Marriage
XXIII. Adoption
XXIV. Minority and Guardianship
XXV. Maintenance
XXVI. Conversion from Hinduism, Khojas, Cutchi Memons And
Some others
XXVII. Impartible Property
XXVIII.The Law Of Damdupat
XXIX. Benami Transactions
XXX. Jains
XXXI. Shudras
Part II
The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
Chapter.I. Preliminary
Chapter.II. Hindu Marriages
Chapter.III. Restitution of Conjugal Rights and Judicial Separation
Chap. IV. Nullity of Marriage and Divorce
Chap. V. Jurisdiction and Procedure
Chap. VI. Savings And Repeals
The Hindu Succession Act, 1956
Chap. I. Preliminary
Chap. II. Intestate Succession
Chap. II-A. Succession By Survivorship
Chap. III. Testamentary Succession
Chap. IV. Repeals
The Hindu Minority And Guardianship Act, 1956
Introductory Note
The Hindu Minority And Guardianship Act, 1956
The Hindu Adoptions And Maintenance Act, 1956
Chap. I. Preliminary
Chap. II. Adoption
Chap. III. Maintenance
Chap. IV. Repeals And Savings
Appendices
Satyajeet A Desai is an advocate practicing in the High Court of
Gujarat on the Constitutional, Original as well as the Appellate side
for twenty three years. He is also the distinguished and eminent
revising author of the legal classic Mulla Hindu Law. Satyajeet
Desai chaired the session dealing with draft legislation, held under
the aegis of the Law Commission of India, regarding proposed
changes to the Hindu Succession Act. The author hails from a family
of eminent Jurists and has continued the legacy of his grandfather,
Late Justice ST Desai who was a Judge of the Bombay High Court,
later the First Chief Justice of the High Court of Gujarat, on the
bifurcation of the greater bilingual State of Bombay, and thereafter
Senior Advocate Supreme Court of India.
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