GK
INDIAN HISTORY
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No right over the ancestral properties for the Christian converts.
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The Christian converts the right to inherit their ancestral properties.
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No right over the ancestral properties for the converts from Buddhist religion.
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The right to inherit the ancestralproperties for the converts fromJain religion.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Lex Loci Act, 1850 was for protecting the right of a convert to inherit ancestral property. It gave the Christian converts the right to inherit their ancestral properties. statement 2 is correct. The act, the Hindus widely believed, would open floodgates to Christian conversion.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Lex Loci Act of 1850 allowed a Hindu, who had converted to a different faith, to inherit his ancestral property.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hindu Law is not Lex Loci In other words it is not a “lex-loci” (law of Locality i.e., which applies only to a particular locality or State) but a “personal law”. It means that a Hindu, in whatever country he may be, is governed by Hindu Law in all personal matters.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Lex Loci Report of October 1840 emphasised the importance and necessity of uniformity in codification of Indian law, relating to crimes, evidences and contract but it recommended that personal laws of Hindus and Muslims should be kept outside such codification.