Mulla, Dinshaw Fardunji <br/><br/>
Hindu Law /  
by Dinshaw Fardunji Mulla 
 - 25th ed. 
 - Gurgaon:  LexisNexis Publications,   2025 
 - 1568p.;  25cm. 
<br/><br/>Part I : Principles of Hindu Law<br/>Chapter I         -     Operation of Hindu Law<br/>Chapter II        -     Sources of Hindu Law<br/>Chapter III       -     General Principles of Inheritance<br/>Chapter IV       -     Order of Inheritance of Males According to Mitakshara Law<br/>Chapter V        -     Female Heirs<br/>Chapter VI       -     Order of Succession to Males in the Bombay State<br/>Chapter VII      -     Order of Inheritance to Males According to Dayabhaga or Bengal School<br/>Chapter VIII     -     Points of Difference between Mitakshara and Dayabhaga Succession<br/>Chapter IX       -     Exclusion from Inheritance and Partition<br/>Chapter X        -     Women’s Property: Part I – Stridhana<br/>Chapter XI       -     Women’s Property: Part II – Property Acquired by a Woman by Inheritance<br/>Chapter XII      -     Joint Hindu Family Coparceners and Coparcenary Property – Mitakshara Law<br/>Chapter XIII     -     Coparceners and Coparcenary Property under Dayabhaga Law<br/>Chapter XIV     -     Debts Mitakshara Law<br/>Chapter XV      -     Debts - Dayabhaga Law<br/>Chapter XVI     -     Partition and Reunion - Mitakshara Law<br/>Chapter XVII    -     Partition - Dayabhaga Law<br/>Chapter XVIII   -     Gifts<br/>Chapter XIX     -     Wills<br/>Chapter XX      -     Rules Common to Gifts and Wills<br/>Chapter XXI     -     Religious and Charitable Endowments<br/>Chapter XXII    -     Marriage<br/>Chapter XXIII   -     Adoption<br/>Chapter XXIV   -     Minority and Guardianship<br/>Chapter XXV    -     Maintenance<br/>Chapter XXVI   -     Conversion from Hinduism, Khojas, Cutchi, Memons and Some Others<br/>Chapter XXVII  -     Impartible Property<br/>Chapter XXVIII -     The Law of Damdupat<br/>Chapter XXIX   -     Benami Transactions<br/>Chapter XXX    -     Jains<br/>Chapter XXXI   -     Shudras<br/>Part II<br/>The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955<br/>Introductory Note<br/>The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955<br/>Chapter I         -    Preliminary<br/>Chapter II        -    Hindu Marriages<br/>Chapter III       -    Restitution of Conjugal Rights and Judicial Separation<br/>Chapter IV       -    Nullity of Marriage and Divorce<br/>Chapter V        -    Jurisdiction and Procedure<br/>Chapter VI       -    Savings and Repeals<br/>The Hindu Succession Act 1956<br/>Introductory Note<br/>The Hindu Succession Act, 1956<br/>Chapter I         -    Preliminary<br/>Chapter II        -    Intestate Succession<br/>Chapter III       -    Testamentary Succession<br/>Chapter IV       -    Repeals<br/>The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956<br/>Introductory Note<br/>The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956<br/>The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act 1956<br/>Introductory Note<br/>The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956<br/>Chapter I          -    Preliminary<br/>Chapter II         -    Adoption<br/>Chapter III        -    Maintenance<br/>Chapter IV        -    Repeals and Savings<br/>Appendix<br/>Appendix I   -  The Hindu Disposition of Property Act 1916<br/>Appendix II  -  The Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) Act 1928<br/>Appendix III -  The Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929<br/>Appendix IV -  The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006<br/>Appendix V  -  The Hindu Gains of Learning Act, 1930<br/>Appendix V  -  The Hindu Women’s Rights to Property Act 1937<br/>Appendix VI -  The Prohibition of  Benami Property Transactions  Act, 1988 
<br/><br/> The commentary and indeed, the legal fraternity of India, is also beholden to the brilliance and legal acuity of the late Justice ST Desai, a former judge of the Bombay High Court, then the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Gujarat and thereafter, a very respected Senior Counsel in the Supreme Court of India, for close to three decades, upon whom the mantle fell to carry forward the work of revising this book. At the time when ST Desai, wrote the revised commentary, the task of penning a commentary to the new acts on Hindu Succession, Marriage. Adoptions and Maintenance, and Minority and Guardianship, also fell upon his shoulders, as these acts had come into effect. By then, he was already, besides being a well-known lawyer and later a judge of the Bombay High Court. established as the author of his brilliant commentary on the Law of Partnership in India. His carrying forward the commentary and revising the book added to the lustre of this book on legal firmament. I shall not dwell much upon the fact that the commentary has, time and again, proven useful to the whole of the legal fraternity and that various segments of the commentary and topics discussed, have found a place in many important judgments of the Supreme Court and the High Courts, and that many a judgment has, in fact, relied upon this commentary. That is the great respect and recognition that this book commands because of the in depth analysis of this branch of law, as a result of those venerable legal luminaries Sir D F Mulla and Justice ST Desai. Nor will I dwell long upon the aspect of how this commentary has traced legal developments oments in the field of its operation. For the reader interested in that, I would, apart from the commentary and analysis of law therein, draw attention to the seminally brilliant work evident in the Introduction at the beginning of the book, penned by Justice ST Desai, which has been an integral part of the book since the 12th Edition and my own minor contribution, in explaining the origins of this branch of law by way o some portion included in the preface to the 17th edition ---provided by publisher 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788119403417 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> India Law commentaries<br/>Hindus Legal status, laws, etc.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>346.015  / MUL