Excerpt from The Law of Joint Property and Partition in British India The subject of this Treatise was the subject on which I delivered Lectures as the Tagore Law Professor for the year 1896 in the University of Calcutta. During the 16 years which have since elapsed, case-law has largely discussed several incidents of joint property, while legislature has made new provisions for the partition of revenue paying estates. In the present Edition I have attempted to discuss the principles in the light of the authoritative decisions up-to-date, without interfering with the old division of the subject according to the personal laws of the people in British India. This division of the subject will, it is hoped, facilitate the student in discriminating the principles of the different systems of law on the same questions, though it may inconvenience the busy practitioner who will have to refer to different parts of the Treatise in order to collect all the information on any question. But this inconvenience, it is hoped, will be minimized by a reference to the Index which will show at once where the same question has been discussed according to the different systems of law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.