Burmese Buddhist Law; Being a Collection of Portions of Several Damathats in Regard to Divorce, Inheritance, Marriage and Partition, Together with Rul

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891. Excerpt: ... possession, shall be divided into 2 equal shares, and of these the person so assisting him shall have 1 and the other relations the other; because he was only entitled to inherit. If ther- be debts, let them pay them in the same proportion. 63rd. A pfrson being sick, one not related to him takes care of him and after his death buries him--the law of inheritance as regards this person and the parents and relations of the deceased. If a person who is not related assist in life, and at death bury another, the law as to the partition of the property of deceased between this person and his parents and relations, is this; if any person being sick shall be assisted by another who is not related to hinj, and dying in the hands of this person, he shall bury him, let him take all the property in the possession of the deceased; his parents, children, or relations, shall have no claim. That no person having property with the deceased shall recover it, is shown by this precedent: In former times, the son of a man of the wealthy class having become a Rahan, concealed a ruby ring, which he had received from his parents, worth 100,000 tickals, in the hem of his priest's garment and went to a far country, where he took up his abode in the convent of another Rahan, and there fell sick; this Rahan assisted and administered medicine to him, but the influence of former deeds extended no further, and he died; the Rahan of the convent got his ruby ring. After the funeral, the rich man, his father, came and inquired of the Rahan, saying, Did you get a ruby ring worth 100,000 tickals, which was in the possession of my son? The Rahan, who had assisted him in his illness and at death put his bones in the earth, replied that he had got it. Whereupon the rich man said my lor...