2.5 Religious Law System

The concept: the divine-law families — the law as the religion's revelation-and-tradition (the secular legislation's difference); the families: the Hindu, the Islamic, the Jewish (and the canon law's Western echo). Hindu law: the concept-and-origin: the Dharma's law — the Vedic-and- smriti tradition (the shruti-smriti sources; the dharmaśāstra corpus — Manu, Yajnavalkya, Narada); the three sources: the śruti (the revelation), the smŗti (the remembered tradition), the sadācāra (the good custom) + the nyāya (the equity-reason); the schools: the Mitakshara (the whole- subcontinent's majority — the coparcenary's joint-family architecture) vs the Dayabhaga (the Bengal's separate-ownership face); the development: the commentator era (the digests — the nibandhas); the Anglo-Hindu law's colonial construction (the pandits' answers-to-court + the case- law's fossilisation); the modern codifications (the Hindu Code Acts 1955-56 of India — the reform era); the impact on Nepal: the DEEPEST reception — the Muluki Ain's dharmashastra substrate; the family law's shastric architecture (the marriage-inheritance-and-adoption institutions; the coparcenary's historical design — the son's by-birth share; the stridhan); the guthi law's Newar- Buddhist-Hindu blend; the reform trajectory (the equal-inheritance amendment; the 2074 codes' secular recasting — the Hindu-law substrate modernised, not abolished). Muslim law: the concept-and-origin: the Shari'a — the Allah's law (the revelation's totality: the fiqh's jurisprudence); the sources: the primary — the Quran (the revelation) + the Sunna (the Prophet's practice); the secondary…