History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.362

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¹⁵¹² Vide *Sheo Shankar v. Debi Sahai* L. R. 30 I. A. 202 (a case from Allahabad) for the proposition that according to the law of the Benares school even property inherited by a woman from a female is not her strīdhana and does not pass to her heirs. The principal grounds for the decision were that as regards property inherited by a female from males the rule deductible from the gloss of Vijñāneśvara had already been discarded and that even as to property inherited from a female the same rule had been applied in most High Courts (p. 208). Vide also *Balwantrao v. Baji Rao* L. R. 47 I. A. 213, 223 where the Privy Council approve of the Bombay High Court's decision in *Bhau v. Raghunath* 30 Bom. 229 that a daughter succeeding to her father takes the property absolutely as strīdhana in the Bombay Presidency.