Some Precedents and Records To Aid Enquiry As To The Hindu Will of Bengal With an Introductory Essay and Critical Commentary upon the Bounds Set to Hindu Devise by Recent Judgements of the High Court in Appeal

or order a disposition of his chattels they should he disposed of accoringly.— Magna Charta made or sanctioned an alteration in the custom ; the 18t11 chapter provides That the debts of the King's tenants Amid be.first discharged out of their chattels and the residue should be left to the executors to perform the will qf the deceased ; and nothing mre owing to the King all chattels shoul [...] On the death of their villeins the lords appear to have had the right of decimating their substance and after appropriating the tenth to themselves of distributing the residue among the families of the deceased according to their own judgment or caprice. [...] over the residu% to the executors ; to sell goods and tsi deliver up the possession of goods to executors and to caufAi testaments to be observed.— The feudal system as administered here carried the lands to the eldest son and after the tenant's debts and the heriot due to his lord were discharged divided the goods into three parts one for the wife another for the children and the third [...] The Constitutions of Stratford gave some direction of the surplus of intestates' effects to pious causes to persons akin to the "deceased to servants and near-ones or others for the salvation of the " defunct's soul." Pious causes were defined to be objects of compasion as the poor and infirm ; matters of police as the watching of cities repairing of roads and bridges ; church-matters [...] III c. 11 it was accorded that in cases where a a man died intestate the Ordinaries should depute the next and most lawful friends of the deceased to administer his goods who should have actionsto recover the debts of the intestate to administer and dispend fur the soul of the deceased and should answer to those to whom the decnsed was bound and they should be accountable to the Ordinarie