History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.183

v4.c63.t2.183

The V. Mayūkha proposes a special order of inheritance as follows :—(1) full brothers; (2) then full brother's sons; (3) the gotraja sapiṇḍas of whom the first is the paternal grandmother, (4) then the sister, (5) then the paternal grandfather and the half brother at the same time, (6) then the paternal great-grandfather, paternal uncle and the half brother's son together. It should be noted that this conjoint inheritance by heirs of different degrees of ascent and descent which is peculiar to the Mayūkha has been regarded by the Bombay High Court as unknown in practice and obsolete.¹⁴⁰⁶ Therefore it is probable that even in districts governed by the Mayūkha the order of heirs after the paternal grandmother and full sister would be half brother, then half sister and then half brother's son and then it will be the same both according to the Mit. and the Mayūkha.