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86 by his debts, such estate or any part thereof beyond his own life-time, unless the alienation is made or the debt incurred under circumstances which would entitle the managing member of a joint Hindu family to do the same. Hereafter no money-lender will readily lend money to the proprietor of an impartible estate; because the burden of proving that the purpose for which the money was borrowed was lawful rests on the money-lender. This is a great permanent boon to all holders of impartible estates. Now we must know either by common-sense, or by the Impartible Estates Act, that we have only a life-interest in our estates; that we must manage them to the best possible advantage and that we have only a right to enjoy a proper share of our incomes according to our position and rank.

Even proprietors who do not come under this benevolent Act should treat their