Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.793

c7.793

of debt—the debt is realised and the sum is then divided; prepared food is exchanged for unprepared food; the water of a well or a tank should be used according to need; male and female slaves should be divided or work alternately in the houses of the coparceners; fields and embankments are to be divided *pro rata parte* (into shares agreed upon), the pasture ground and the common roads are to be used in the same manner. Only the presents of the father-in-law to his daughters-in-law are not included in the partition even in the opinion of Bṛh.