How dayabhaga system promotes gender equality?
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It promotes gender equality by letting women grant various possessions.
- All land, including the person's notional share of joint family property, was considered as self-acquired/separate property under the effective scheme.
- Daughters had the right to inherit separate property from their father in any of these schemes, but only if there were no known male heirs and the widowed mother.
- It was supposed to provide a succession law giving sons and daughters equal inheritance rights. Women had absolute control of their stridhan given at the time of wedding and could inherit immovable property as well.
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