Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.838

c7.838

The customary law of the Punjab has various points of agreement with the Smṛtis in this respect although it recognises no connection between the law of inheritance and the funeral sacrifice ¹. The succession of heirs is arranged strictly agnatically according to generations and with unrestricted right of representation. The family property never goes out of the *got*. If there is no male issue then the widow inherits the property, but she cannot sell the family-property because after her death it reverts to the agnates of her husband and she is on the whole more or less controlled by them in her dispositions of the property. The daughter may claim only maintenance until her marriage though a tendency to allow a share of the inheritance to the daughter is quite perceptible, but elsewhere, on the contrary, even the widow is given only a sustenance ².