Hindu Administrative Institutions c10.s3.37

c10.s3.37

There are again offences connected with marriage. Some of them are one man impersonating the other who has paid the bride-price (*śulka*) for a girl, obtaining a bride for one man after undertaking to get her for another, refusing to give a girl in marriage as agreed upon, and substituting a different girl for the one whom it had been agreed to give in marriage. The scale of fine was to vary with the gravity of the offence. There are regulations as to divorce by the husband, or the wife, as the case may be, and also regulations touching the inheritance of property among the various sons of the deceased father. How and in what proportion they are to be distributed among the various sons of perhaps different mothers is an interesting chapter of Hindu law. Incidentally the rights of a married woman towards her own property and that of her husband are dealt with. Anything contrary was visited with penalty.³