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Description
Rattigan’s Custormary Law is a Monumental classic par excellence. Its effluence brightened the concept of custom beyond ingenuity. It was a tremendous effort made by the celebrated author to keep alive the pristine glory of custom which has from long usage, obtained the force of law.
This edition incorporates the contemporary Sasthrik Law then prevailing and the Statutory law now dominating punctuated with more case laws. This great classic in its latest edition will continue illuminating the readers and fascinate them with its usefulnes.
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Contents
Chapter I - The Essentials and Proof of a Valid Custom
Chapter II - Succession and Maitenance
Chapter III - Appointment of an Heir
Chapter IV - Alienation
Chapter V - Marriage, Divorce and Dower
Chapter VA - Guardianship
Chapter VI - Religious Institutions and WAQF Property
Chapter VII - Land Law and Tenures
Chapter VIII - Tenant-right
Chapter X - The Village Common Land
Chapter XI - Absentees
Chapter XII - Village Cesses
Chapter XIII - Alluvion and Diluvion
Chapter XIV - Mercantile Usages
Chapter XV - Special Property of Females
Appendices
1. Punjab Limitation (Custom) Act
2. Punjab Custom (Power to Contest)Act
3. Pagvand or Chundavand Rule; Custom Followed in the Punjab
4. Right of Step-sons (Pichlags) to Succeed to Step-father
5. Widow’s Claim to Partition
6. Widow’s Right to Maintenance
7. Daughter’s Right of Succession
8. Sisters and their issue usually excluded
9. Rights of Illegitimate Children
10. Right of Adoption
11. Existence of the Custom of Making Wills
12. The Punjab Laws Act, 1872
13. The Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937
14. Extracts from Hindu Codified Law
15. The Punjab Pre-emption Act, 1991
16. The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005
Subject Index
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Author Details
Auhtor - Rattigan
Revising Author - Dr. Hari Dev Kohli, M.A., B.T., (Gold Medalist), M.L. (Gold Medalist), Ph.D.
Author of Hinduism and Divorce; Law and Illegitimate Child.
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