J. D. Mayne
historical figure · 1 work · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Mr. J. D. Mayne · Mayne · the modern writer
in the texts
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Author of 'Hindu Law and Usage', cited on the link between spiritual benefit and inheritance.
) has shown that, wherever in modern India the doctrine of Spiritual Benefit—that is, of an intimate connection between the religious blessing and the civil right of succession—is most strongly held, women and the descendants of women are oftenest permitted to inherit.
Mayne, ‘Hindu Law and Usage,’ p.
104) that the Christian Church, when engaged in proselytism among barbarous societies, exerted a similarly dissolving force upon tribal ownership.