Stridhan
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Hindu Stridhan · woman's property
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The Hindoo institution of a married woman's separate, inalienable property.
The settled property of a married woman, incapable of alienation by her husband, is well-known to the Hindoos under the name of Stridhan.
The definition of Stridhan, or ‘woman’s property,’ given in one of the oldest and most authoritative of the Hindoo juridical treatises, the Mitakshara, is as follows:
but whenever the property does satisfy the multifarious conditions laid down for the creation of the Stridhan, the view of it as emphatically ‘woman’s property’ is carried out with a logical consistency very suggestive of the character of the ancient institution on which the Brahminical jurists made war.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The Hindu institution of women's separate property descending by a peculiar line of succession, compared to South Slavonian practice.
(d) In some of the house communities both this property and the marriage portion, both the parapherna and the dos, descend, like the Hindu Stridhan, by a peculiar line of succession to female inheritresses.