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Answer to 2d Query
The father is Master of all moveable Property, but neither the father or Grandfather are entire Master of fixed property.
This is a Quotation from Jaggia Baltio, on which the Author of the Daye Bhaug makes the following Comment.
The word Grandfather being used, the whole sentence alludes to Property descending from ancestors. A person can therefore que by his will, one half of what has descended from his father or ancestors, to his wife, and one half to his only son.
Answer to 3d Query
If the son is more than sixteen years of age, he has a lawful right under the will, to the management of the whole Estate, should he not have attained that age, the widow has a lawful right to the management, as far as sueing and defending suits, this is to be done by People on her behalf authorized by her. If a division takes places they manage their own respective shares.
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