already shown that children born of zina (which means fornication, adultery, or incest) can never be legitimated or entitled to inherit from their father ... walad-ooz-zina, that is, the offspring of a fornication, adultery, or incest, can ever be legitimated by any kind of acknowledgment by the father
that a Hindu Brahman cannot adopt his sister son, as it imports incest. It appears from the names of the parties that this
made to the general prevalence at that time of drunkenness, superstition, adultery, incest and bestiality and it is asserted that although the Prophet posed
below have found that he made it and imputed to the wife incest with her own brother and that the imputation was wholly without foundation
rule is that they cannot adopt a son whom it would be incest to have begotten and conversely that they may adopt ... without incest they could have begotten him".
(Considerations on the Hindu Law, as is current in Bengal (1824), p. 150).
10. Sir Thomas Strange
panchayat which effectively settles every serious breach of social norm like adultery, incest, rape, divorce, separation and maintenance, and even petty thefts. The offences ... adultery, incest and rape are seriously punished, both in terms of cash fines and also physical humiliation. A man marrying outside the biradari is excommunicated
some one having actually seen the lovers in the act, of incest through key-holes or by taking photographs of the adulterous intercourse
need not always liberally imply that the person so des6ribed had committed incest, with his sister (bahinchod) or was a bastard (harami) or a person
This was a case where the father was an accused of incest with his four year old daughter, and there was a long history
under :
"One study found that rates of sexual re-offense for incest offenders (those who offend against family members ) ranged between ... found higher sexual recidivism rates for rapists conpared with child molesters, with incest offenders having the lowest rate of re-offense of all categories
