History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.497

v4.c63.t2.497

¹⁶⁰¹ In *Nagalutchmee Ummal v. Gopoo Nadaraja* 6 Moo. I. A. p. 309 the P. C. said (at p. 344): 'It must be allowed that in the ancient Hindu Law, as it was understood through the whole of Hindustan, testamentary instruments in the sense affixed by English lawyers to that expression were unknown; and it is stated by a writer of authority (Sir Thomas Strange) that the Hindoo language has no terms to express what we mean by a will. But it does not necessarily follow that what in effect though not in form are testamentary instruments which are only to come into operation and affect property after the death of the maker of the instrument were equally unknown.