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No branch of jurisprudence is more important than the law of successions or inheritance; as it constitutes that part of any national system of laws, which is the most peculiar and distinct, and which is of most frequent use and extensive application.
In the Hindu jurisprudence in particular, it is the branch of law, which specially and almost exclusively merits the attention of those who are qualifying themselves for the line of service in which it will become their duty to administer justice to our Hindu subjects, according to their own laws.
Daya-Bhaga and Mitakshara are the two basic treatises on the Hindu law of inheritance. This book comprehends the celebrated treatise of Jimuta-Vahana on successions, which is constantly cited by the lawyers of Bengal under the emphatic title of Daya-Bhaga or ‘‘inheritance;’’ and an extract from the still more celebrated Mitakshara, comprising so much of this work as relates to inheritance. The range of its authority and influence, is far more extensive than that of Jimuta-Vahana’s treatise; for it is received in all the school of Hindu law, from Benares to the southern extremity of the peninsula of India; as the chief groundwork of the doctrines which they follow, and as an authority from which they rarely dissent
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