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H1ST0R Y OF THE PARSIS. [chap. v.
a regulation might be passed in terms of those
answers which they presented " as embracing the
rights of inheritance and succession that are acknow-
ledged by the Parsi nation." But owing to another
petition having been transmitted to the Legislative
Council by some of the Zoroastrians, embodying
adverse opinions, and owing to several other causes,
the matter remained unsettled.
In the answers to Mr. Borradaile two points were
principally noticeable. In the case of intestacy of a
male Parsi they proposed to give a right of inheritance
to the widow and daughters, fixing the amount at one-
eighth for each. They proposed to give the Parsi
wife a power of disposing by will, in her husband's
lifetime, with or without his consent, of all property
she might have brought from her father's house.
Four years after the passing of the Chattels Real
Act of 1837, the Parsis of Bombay, in a letter dated
5th of March 1841, and addressed to Mr. Borradaile,
who had meanwhile become a member of the Indian
Law Commission, expressed their opinion on the evil
arising from subjecting, as regards inheritance, all the
property of intestate Parsis within the limits of the
Supreme Court to English law, notwithstanding the
partial relief afforded by the Act of 1837. In that
letter they urged the necessity for something being
done at once, on the ground that the English law in
cases of intestacy was still wholly unsuited to their
H1ST0R Y OF THE PARSIS. [chap. v.
a regulation might be passed in terms of those
answers which they presented " as embracing the
rights of inheritance and succession that are acknow-
ledged by the Parsi nation." But owing to another
petition having been transmitted to the Legislative
Council by some of the Zoroastrians, embodying
adverse opinions, and owing to several other causes,
the matter remained unsettled.
In the answers to Mr. Borradaile two points were
principally noticeable. In the case of intestacy of a
male Parsi they proposed to give a right of inheritance
to the widow and daughters, fixing the amount at one-
eighth for each. They proposed to give the Parsi
wife a power of disposing by will, in her husband's
lifetime, with or without his consent, of all property
she might have brought from her father's house.
Four years after the passing of the Chattels Real
Act of 1837, the Parsis of Bombay, in a letter dated
5th of March 1841, and addressed to Mr. Borradaile,
who had meanwhile become a member of the Indian
Law Commission, expressed their opinion on the evil
arising from subjecting, as regards inheritance, all the
property of intestate Parsis within the limits of the
Supreme Court to English law, notwithstanding the
partial relief afforded by the Act of 1837. In that
letter they urged the necessity for something being
done at once, on the ground that the English law in
cases of intestacy was still wholly unsuited to their