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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Succession Act, 1925 Section 327

ABATEMENT OF GENERAL LEGACIES If the assets, after payment of debts, necessary expenses and specific legacies, arc not

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Succession Act, 1925 Section 327 is part of Succession Act, 1925 - ABATEMENT OF GENERAL LEGACIES If the assets, after payment of debts, necessary expenses and specific legacies, arc not. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

SECTION 327: ABATEMENT OF GENERAL LEGACIES If the assets, after payment of debts, necessary expenses and specific legacies, arc not sufficient to pay all the general legacies in full, the latter shall abate or be diminished in equal proportions, and, in the absence of any direction to the contrary in the will, the executor has no right to pay one legatee in preference to another, or to retain any money on account of a legacy to himself or to any person for whom he is a trustee. SECTION 328 NON-ABATEMENT OF SPECIFIC LEGACY WHEN ASSETS SUFFICIENT TO PAY DEBTS Where there is a specific legacy, and the assets are sufficient for the payment of debts and necessary expenses, the thing specified must be delivered to the legatee without any abatement.

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What does Succession Act, 1925 Section 327 provide?

Section Section 327 of the Succession Act, 1925 (ABATEMENT OF GENERAL LEGACIES If the assets, after payment of debts, necessary expenses and specific legacies, arc not) 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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