When a Hindu family migrates from one State to another, the law draws a presumption that it carries with it its personal law, i.e., the laws and customs prevailing in the State from which it came. The presumption can, however, be rebutted, by showing that such a family has adopted the law and usages of the new province where it [...]
The Nature and the Scope of Hindu Law are described below: “The Indian soil has not only been productive in deep thinkers, eminent founders of world religions and gifted poets, but it has brought forth a system of law, which, after having spread over the whole vast continent of India, has penetrated at an early period into Burma and Siam, [...]
The Most Important Sources of Hindu Law are as follows: “The Veda, the Smriti, the approved usage, and what is agreeable to one’s soul (good conscience), the wise have declared to be the quadruple direct evidence of Dharma (Law)”. – Manu […]