The Law Relating to Gifts, Trusts, and Testamentary Dispositions Among the Mahommedans: According to the Hanafi, Maliki, Shâfeï, and Shiah SchoolsThacker, Spink, 1885 - 635 pages |
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Abû Hanifa Abû Yusuf acceptance according to Abû Alamgiri applied appointed appropriation become beneficiaries benefit bequest Bibi child condition consent constituted daughters death-illness debt deceased declared dedication deed descendants difference dirhems disposition doctrine donor endowment entitled ewaz executor father fatwa gift give given hajj Hanafi law Hanifa and Mohammed Hedâya heirs hiba High Court Imam income infant inheritance invalid judge jurists Kazi Khan land lawfully LECTURE XV legacy legatee Madrassa Mahommedan Law Mâliki minor Moslem mosque musjid Mussulman mutwalli nasl object one-third opinion partition person perty plaintiff poor portion possession principle purpose Radd Radd-ul-Muhtâr regard revocation revoked rule sadkah seisin sell settlor Shâfeï Shaikh Sharâya share Shiah Law slave take effect testamentary testator testator's death thereof thing tion trust unless usufruct valid void wakf in favour wakf property wakƒ wâkif walf wasi wasiut words Zaid zimmi ان
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Page 50 - But *° ^ aside any act or contract on account of drunkenness, it is not sufficient that the party is under undue excitement from liquor. It must rise to that degree which may be called excessive drunkenness, where the party is utterly deprived of the use of his reason and understanding...
Page 2 - And whereas it is expedient that the lawful Government of the Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa, should be supported, that the Revenues thereof should be collected with Certainty, and that the Inhabitants should be maintained and protected in the Enjoyment of all their ancient Laws, Usages, Rights, and Privileges: May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted;.
Page 49 - The first is nn idiot or fool natural; the second is he who was of good and sound memory, and by the visitation of God has lost it...
Page 358 - ... to the trustee or trustees for the time being of this my will, or...
Page 439 - ... instrument by which a person makes a disposition of his property, to take effect after his decease, and which is in its own nature ambulatory and revocable during his life.
Page 50 - II. law the drunkard has less ground to avoid his own acts and contracts than any other non compos mentis, yet courts of equity will relieve against acts done and contracts made by him, while under this temporary insanity, where they are procured by the fraud or imposition of the other party.
Page 50 - For, in general, courts of equity, as a matter of public policy, do not incline, on the one hand, to lend their assistance to a person who has obtained an agreement or deed from another in a state of intoxication; and, on the other hand, they are equally unwilling to assist the intoxicated party to get rid of his agreement or deed merely on the ground of his intoxication at the time. They will leave the parties to their ordinary remedies at law, unless there is some fraudulent contrivance or some...
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