Bengal
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Bengal Proper · province of Bengal
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Region of India where Jones held his judgeship.
But he accepted a Judgeship in a Court of Justice newly established in Bengal, under an Act of Parliament which reserved to native litigants the application of their own laws and usages in all questions of inheritance and contract;
In the populous province of Bengal Proper, also noticeable for the nearly total disappearance of the Village Community, cognates are largely admitted to succeed, and sometimes in preference to agnates.
Ancient Law
Indian province whose customary law is cited as containing a rare indigenous rudimentary Will.
So, too, the Will of Bengal is only permitted to govern the succession so far as it is consistent with certain overriding claims of the family.
The only form of testament, not belonging to a Roman or Hellenic society, which can reasonably be supposed indigenous, is that recognised by the usages of the province of Bengal;
The Hindoos have indeed advanced one point on what was doubtless the antique practice, by allowing the widow to adopt when the father has neglected to do so, and there are in the local customs of Bengal some faint traces of the Testamentary powers.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
A region of India noted for a liberal widow-inheritance rule and for the practice of Suttee.
But it was exactly in Bengal Proper that the English, on entering India, found the Suttee, or widow-burning, not merely an occasional, but a constant and almost universal practice with the wealthier classes, and, as a rule, it was only the childless widow, and never the widow with minor children, who burnt herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.