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tion will be much more easy complete. When once the work o! effected, it becomes necessary to permanence o! the result is secured. and consolidation see that If the present much more is the system of inheritance is not to be affected at all in any way, as regards land holding, the whole labor in consolidating is wasted. In an address delivered by the Hon. Mr. S. Srinivasa Iyengar, the Annual Gather?g of point? out that any Advocate-General of Madras, before the Vakils in ghe year 1909 he real reconstruction of Indian society cannot be achieved without the to an equal height at the legal corner. edifice rising The hand of the past lies heaviest upon us in respect of legal institutions; and without fresh ideas in law or a fresh group of older ideas, without a fresh momentum of the legal forces, ij is idle to expect any striking advance in other directions. address he pointed out; "we Further on in the same all fervently wish that similar but The least there were some enterprise industrial and commercial and consequent increase in our national wealth and in our standards of comfort, yet the Mitsksh&rs joint family law,' substantive and adjective, offers no induce- ment to enterprise but acts on the other hand as ? powerful brake. There is no reason, therefore, why legal problems, the reform of the Jurisprudence in our country, should not engage our attention ". In his opinion first in importance was the need for the reform of the Mitskshsrs system of holding property. He said, "we should substitute for it ? property law not identical with the Dsysbhags system. that ought to coparcenary proper?y with its and to completely obliterate be done is to abolish incidence of survivorship the owner's right by birth, and he considered that the undoubtedly greater prosperity of Bengal was mainly due to the prevalence