INDEX HINDU LAW

INDEX

1. INTRODUCTION

1. Uncodified Law
2. Codified Hindu Law

2. SOURCES OF HINDU LAW 

1. Sources 
2.  Mitakshara and Dayabhaga
3. Hindu

3. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 

1. Hindu marriage
2. Condition of a valid marriage
3. Void Voidable marriages
4. Restitution of Conjugal Rights
5. Judicial Separation 
6. Grounds for Judicial Separation
7. Grounds for divorce Sn.13

4. ADOPTION 

1. Meaning and object
2. Changes in adoption Law  
3. Essentials of a valid adoption   
4. Legal effects of adoption   
5. Pwayamahayana (adoption)   
6. Kritrima adoption                  
7. Illatom adoption

5. MAINTENANCE 

1.  Meaning   
2. Maintenance of wife                                           
3. Maintenance of widow by father-in-law              
4. Maintenance of children and aged parents
5. Maintenance of dependents
6. Amount of maintenance (Sn.23)

6. GUARDIANSHIP 

1. Guardian
2. Natural Guardians
3. Powers of a Natural Gurdian
4. Testamentary Guardian (Sn,9)
5. Court Guardian
6. Defacto Guardian

7. MITAKSHARA COPARCENARY 

1. Characteristics of a Mitakshara Coparcenary     
2. Joint Hindu family
3. Ancestral property
4. Separate property
5.  PARTITION 

1. Partition 
2. Modes of effecting partition 
3. Re-opening of partition 
4. Reunion (Blending) 

9.  KARTHA 

1. Kartha  
2. Kartha’s power of alienation 

10. SUCCESSION

1. General rule of succession to males
2. General rules of succession to females 

11. SUCCESSION 2
12. General rules of succession common to males or females

12. SUCCESSION 3 

Heirs, HUF business, etc. 

(i)  Disqualification of Heirs-Hindu law and H.S. Act. 

2. HUF business and p. firm
3. Changes under H.S. Act

13. STRIDHANA 

14. ENDOWMENTS 

1. Meaning and nature  
2. Status powers and Functions of shebait or mahunt

15. PIOUS OBLIGATION 

1. Doctrine                                          
2. Avyavaharika Debt. 

16. MISC 

1. Factum, valet
2. Gains of learning Act 1930
3.  Dandupat              
4. Sapinda
5. Legal Necessity 
6. Benami Transaction 
7. Apratibandadaya and saprati bandadaya (Heritages) 
8. Half,FuIl and uterine blood
9. Agnates, Cognates
10. Per capita, per stifpes  
11. Sapinda, samanodak and bandhu
12. Saudayika, Non-Saudayika. 
13. Satapadi
14. Dasi putra-
15. Escheat 

17. LEADING CASES. 

1. Appovier v. Ramasubbien
2. Devaki Nandan v. Muralidhar 
3. Tulasamma v. Seshareddi                   
4. Hemraj v. Khemchand 

18. MARUMAKKATHAYAM, ALIYASANTANA & NAMBOODRI SYSTEMS – SALIENT FEATURES.