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SINGLE MALE HEIRS
UNKNOWN
and to restrain the debauchery and extravagance of those
whose misconduct might involve them all in distress.
The appointment of a single heir among the male children
of a family is a thing unknown in India.
The brothers
divide the paternal property equally, to the exclusion of
the sisters, who have no share whatever in it. The father
does not even possess the privilege of treating one of his
sons more generously than the rest \ The Hindus cannot
conceive how a father could despoil several of his