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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Succession Act, 1925 Section 188

CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH KNOWLEDGE OR WAIVER IS PRESUMED OR INFERRED

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Succession Act, 1925 Section 188 is part of Succession Act, 1925 - CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH KNOWLEDGE OR WAIVER IS PRESUMED OR INFERRED. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) Such knowledge or waiver of inquiry shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be presumed if the legatee has enjoyed for two years the benefits provided for him by the will without doing any act to express dissent.

(2) Such knowledge or waiver of inquiry may be inferred from any act of the legatee which renders it impossible to place me persons interested in the subject-matter of the bequest in the same condition as if such act had not been done.

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What does Succession Act, 1925 Section 188 provide?

Section Section 188 of the Succession Act, 1925 (CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH KNOWLEDGE OR WAIVER IS PRESUMED OR INFERRED) 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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