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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Succession Act, 1925 Section 55

DIVISION OF PROPERTY WHERE INTESTATE LEAVES NEITHER LINEAL DESCENDANTS NOR A WIDOW OR WIDOWER NOR A WIDOW OF ANY LINEAL

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Succession Act, 1925 Section 55 is part of Succession Act, 1925 - DIVISION OF PROPERTY WHERE INTESTATE LEAVES NEITHER LINEAL DESCENDANTS NOR A WIDOW OR WIDOWER NOR A WIDOW OF ANY LINEAL. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

SECTION 55: DIVISION OF PROPERTY WHERE INTESTATE LEAVES NEITHER LINEAL DESCENDANTS NOR A WIDOW OR WIDOWER NOR A WIDOW OF ANY LINEAL DESCENDANT When a Parsi dies leaving neither lineal descendants nor a widow or widower nor a widow 7[or widower] of any lineal descendant, his or her next-of-kin, in the order set forth in Part II of Schedule II, shall be entitled to succeed to the whole of the property of which he or she dies intestate. The next- of kin standing first in Part II of that Schedule shall be preferred to those standing second, the second to the third, and so on in succession, provided that the property shall be so distributed that 8[each male and female standing in the same degree of propinquity shall receive equal shares].

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What does Succession Act, 1925 Section 55 provide?

Section Section 55 of the Succession Act, 1925 (DIVISION OF PROPERTY WHERE INTESTATE LEAVES NEITHER LINEAL DESCENDANTS NOR A WIDOW OR WIDOWER NOR A WIDOW OF ANY LINEAL) is reproduced on this page as part of the Succession Act, 1925. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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