This paper is concerned with the role of property ownership and the importance of male patriarchy on family farms. My task is to critique the role of property and family and its role in State formation. I give the paper this focus as I am interested in local and regional sites where I argue that...

This article outlines the relationship between the Buddhist Vinaya (the rules of Buddhist monks) and the Dharmasastra in ancient India. My purpose is to show that the Vinaya should not be seen as a form of customary law, but as a wider system of jurisprudence linked to Dharmasastra principles...

This article describes how rural claimants have had their claims dealt with under family provision legislation. As regards this legislation, this article concentrates on the expectations of farming sons who have worked on farms and who may expect to receive a major share of a family property....

This article examines this social security issue in Australia where couples share a home and care for each other. Such 'careers' as well as 'long term friends' and 'divorcees and ex-partners' living together, could have their welfare benefits and allowances reduced under current welfare law in...

This paper makes an analysis of rural divorce cases where women have not received a fair share of rural property following divorce. The reasons for women's exclusion from a fair share of property settlements are not always apparent from legal judgments. This approach enables me as regards family...

While some scholarship has considered the significance of confession as a disciplinary measure in the Christian context, there is no appropriate analysis of the disciplinary aspects of confession as regards the rules of Buddhist monks. This article offers a critique of quot;Buddhist...

The purpose of the paper is to ask how family law texts, as regards rural divorce, have obtained there own particular structure and form. The author concentrates on the rural divorce cases.The purpose here is not to give an overview of the law as regards the division of matrimonial property, but...