The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c9.s1.16

c9.s1.16

The Code Napoleon and the Continental laws based on it give the wife an absolute right to only a part of her property, the *parapherna*. But the rest has to be added to the common household as *dot*. This law of *dot*, which, again, is really a continuation of the law of *dos* in the *Institutes* of Justinian, is thus less developed than the Hindu law of *strîdhana*.