299:, despite being a Mar Thoma reformer, opposed the draft stating that a woman with independent property rights, could evade the marriage tithe payable to her Church, by opting for a civil ceremony. He alleged that the Christian Commission by majority, is manoeuvring to realize the reform ideals of its President, judge P. Cherian. He also pointed out that the division of property based on the proposed bill, could adversely affect the voting rights of those Syrian men, who were privileged enough to vote in
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As a result, the draft bill was amended by a select committee of legislators from the
Popular Assembly, reducing a daughter's share in ancestral property from a third to a quarter and that too subject to a maximum value of 5000 rupees. Although a widows share remained equal to that of a son's, it was
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Cherian's efforts to create a legal framework to regulate Christian succession, did not go unnoticed. In recognition of his services, he was appointed as a judge to the high court of Travancore. Publications from that time, mentions him as an example of someone who rose to the highest judicial
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women. Some of them were involved in a controversial lawsuit, concerning the division of property of a deceased person. This was eventually settled, based on a legal testimony of Judge P. Cherian, by applying the Indian
Succession Act. The judgement was to divide the dead man's estate, equally
237:, on 23 July 1911, appointed a commission of six leading Travancore Christians to study and record evidence about the existing succession practices of Travancore Christians, with recommendations for a settled law. The commission consisted of
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The
Travancore Christian Succession Act of 1916 stood for several decades as a monument of his legal acumen and judicial wisdom. Later, the Syrian Christian women of India took the cause of furthering their rights upon themselves. Educator
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elections. The only other dissenter from within the commission was K. C. Mammen
Mappillai. The conservative hierarchs of various Syrian Churches were also of the same mindset and voiced their stance to the Dewan, in writing.
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between his mother and widow, excluding all other paternal claimants. This legal precedent, which was upheld by all higher courts, influenced the commission.
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