 | Shama Churun Sircar - Hindu law - 1867 - 1246 pages
...heirs. As the defendant is unable to establish the existence of the alleged family custom, the decision of the lower court was reversed and a decree given...appellant. Whenever a plea of family custom is set off against the ordinary law of inheritance, it is necessary that usage be ancient and invariable,... | |
 | Shama Churun Sircar - Hindu law - 1878 - 1064 pages
...heirs. As the defendant is unable to establish the existence of the alleged family custom, the decision of the lower court was reversed, and a decree given...appellant. Whenever a plea of family custom is set off against the ordinary law of inheritance, it is necessary that usage be ancient and invariable,... | |
 | Sripati Charan Roy - Customary law - 1911 - 670 pages
...of instances of anomalous inheritance from which the knladiar may be inferred. Where a family usage is set up against the ordinary law of inheritance, it is necessary to show that the usage alleged is ancient, continuous and invariable and that fact must be proved by... | |
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... next male heirs in exclusion of all other heirs. As the defendant is unable to establish the existence of the alleged family custom, the decision of the lower court was reversed and a decree given for the (plaintiff) appellant. Whenever a plea of... 