History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.563

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The ancient and medieval Hindu law of inheritance and succession was modelled on this. Vide Yāj. II 140, Manu IX. 201 and Nārada (dāyabhāga, verses 21-22) Yāj II. 140 declares that the impotent, the outcast and his son, a lame man, a lunatic, an idiot, a blind man and a person afflicted with an incurable disease are not entitled to a share, but are entitled to receive maintenance. This subject has been dealt with in H. of Dh. Vol. III pp 610-612 The Mit. on Yāj. II. 140 provides that the grounds of disqualification apply to males and females alike. But the recent Hindu Succession Act (No. 32 of 1956) sweeps away all these grounds of disqualification by providing that no person shall be disqualified from succeeding to any property on the ground of any disease, defect or deformity or, save as provided in this act, on any other ground whatever (section 28).