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Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 267

Title: District Judge May Order Person to Produce Testamentary Papers

State: Central

Year: 1925

(1) The District Judge may order any person to produce and bring into Court any paper or writing, being or purporting to be testamentary, which may be shown to be in the possession or under the control of such person. (2) If it is not shown that any such paper or writing is in the possession or under the control of such person, but there is reason to believe that he has the knowledge of any such paper or writing, the court may direct such person to attend for the purpose of being examined respecting the same. (3) Such person shall be bound to answer truly such questions as may be put to him by the court, and, if so ordered, to produce and bring in such paper or writing, and shall be subject to the like punishment under the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860), in case of default in not attending or in not answering such questions or not bringing in such paper or writing, as he would have been subject to in case he had been a party to a suit and had made such default. (4) The costs of the proceeding shall be in the discretion of the Judge.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Part 9

Title: Probate, Letters of Administration and Administration of Assets of Deceased

State: Central

Year: 1925

..... (viii) The person to whom probate was, or letters of administration were, granted has subsequently become of unsound mind. INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925Chapter 4 - OF THE PRACTICE IN GRANTING AND REVOKING PROBATES AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION Section 264 - Jurisdiction of District Judge in granting and revoking probates, etc. (1) The District Judge shall have jurisdiction in granting and revoking probates and letters of administration in all cases within his district. (2) Except in cases to which section 57 applies, no court in any local area beyond the limits of the towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay,1[***] shall, where the deceased is a Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina or an exempted person, receive applications for probate or letters of administration until the State Government has, by a notification in the Official Gazette, authorised it so to do. ______________________ 1. The words "and the province of Burma" omitted by the A.O. 1937. Section 264 - Jurisdiction of District Judge in granting and revoking probates, etc. (1) The District Judge shall have jurisdiction in granting and revoking probates and letters of administration in all cases.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 4

Title: Of the Practice in Granting and Revoking Probates and Letters of Administration

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....the A.O. 1948, for "thewhole of British India". 2. The words "of India" omitted by the A.O.1950. 3. Inserted by A.O. 1937. 4. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951,section 3 andSchedule, for "the States". 5. 1st April, 1937. 6. Added by the A. O. 1948. 7. The words "of India" omitted by Act 42of 1953, section 4 and Schedule III. 8. 15th August, 1947. Section 273 - Conclusiveness of probate or letters of administration Probate or letters of administration shall have effect overall the property and estate, moveable or immoveable, of the deceased,throughout the State in which the same is or are granted, and shall beconclusive as to the representative title against all debtors of the deceased,and all persons holding property which belongs to him, and shall afford fullindemnity to all debtors, paying their debts and all persons delivering up suchproperty to the person to whom such probate or letters of administration havebeen granted: Provided that probates and letters of administrationgranted- (a) by a High Court, or (b) by a District Judge, where the deceased at the time ofhis death had a fixed place of abode situate within the jurisdiction of suchJudge, and such.....

Succession Act, 1925 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....under this section or exempted from the operation of any of the provisions of the Indian Succession Act, 1865(10 of 1865), under section 332 of that Act are in this Act referred to as "exempted persons". PART 02 OF DOMICILE SECTION 04: APPLICATION OF PART This Part shall not apply if the deceased was a Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina. SECTION 05: LAW REGULATING SUCCESSION TO DECEASED PERSON'S IMMOVABLE AND MOVABLE PROPERTY, RESPECTIVELY (1) Succession to the immovable property in India of a person deceased shall be regulated by the law of India, wherever such person may have had his domicile at the time of his death. (2) Succession to the movable property of a person deceased is regulated by the law of the country in which such person had his domicile at the time of his death. SECTION 06: ONE DOMICILE ONLY AFFECTS SUCCESSION TO MOVABLES A person can have only one domicile for the purpose of the succession to his movable property. SECTION 07: DOMICILE OF ORIGIN OF PERSON OF LEGITIMATE BIRTH The domicile of origin of every person of legitimate birth is in the country in which at the time of his birth his father was domiciled; or, if he is a posthumous.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Part 6

Title: Testamentary Succession

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....of ministers of religion; for the formation or support of a public garden; All these bequests are void. _____________________ 1. Added by Act 51 of 1991, section 6. INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925Chapter 8 - OF THE VESTING OF LEGACIES Section 119 - Date of vesting of legacy when payment or possession postponed Where by the terms of a bequest the legatee is not entitled to immediate possession of the thing bequeathed, a right to receive it at the proper time shall, unless a contrary intention appears by the will, become vested in the legatee on the testator's death, and shall pass to the legatee's representatives if he dies before that time and without having received the legacy, and in such cases the legacy is from the testator's death said to be vested in interest. Explanation.An intention that a legacy to any person shall not become vested in interest in him is not to be inferred merely from a provision whereby the payment or possession of the thing bequeathed is postponed, or whereby a prior interest therein is bequeathed to some other person, or whereby the income arising from the fund bequeathed is directed to be accumulated until the time of payment arrives,.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Complete Act

Title: Indian Succession Act, 1925

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....- Short title Section2 - Definitions Section3 - Power of State Government to exempt any race, sect or tribe in the State from operation of Act Part 2 Section4 - Application of Part Section5 - Law regulating succession to deceased person's immovable and movable property, respectively Section6 - One domicile only affects succession to movables Section7 - Domicile of origin of person of legitimate birth Section8 - Domicile of origin of illegitimate child Section9 - Continuance of domicile of origin Section10 - Acquisition of new domicile Section11 - Special mode of acquiring domicile in India Section12 - Domicile not acquired by residence as representative of foreign Government, or as part of his family Section13 - Continuance of new domicile Section14 - Minor's domicile Section15 - Domicile acquired by woman on marriage Section16 - Wife's domicile during marriage Section17 - Minor's acquisition of new domicile Section18 - Lunatic's acquisition of new domicile Section19 - Succession to movable property in India in absence of proof of domicile elsewhere Part 3 Section20 - Interests and powers not acquired nor lost by marriage Section21 - Effect of marriage.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 3

Title: Of the Execution of Unprivileged Wills

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....more than one witness be present at the same time, and noparticular form of attestation shallbe necessary. ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 10of 1927, section 2 and Schedule I. Section 63 - Execution of unprivileged Wills Every testator, not being asoldier employed in an expedition or engaged in actual warfare, 1 [or an airman so employed orengaged,] or a mariner at sea, shallexecute his Will according to the followingrules:- (a) The testator shall sign or shallaffix his mark to the Will, or it shall be signed by some other person in hispresence and by his direction. (b) The signature or mark of thetestator, or the signature of the person signing for him,shall be so placedthat it shall appear that it was intendedthereby to give effect to the writing as a Will. (c) The Will shall be attested by two or more witnesses, each of whom hasseen the testator sign or affix hismark to the Will or has seen some otherperson sign the Will, in the presence and by the direction of the testator, orhas received from the testator a personal acknowledgement of his signature or mark, or of the signature of such other person; and each of thewitnesses shall sign the Will in the.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 6

Title: Of the Construction of Wills

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....of determining questions as to what person or what property is denoted by any words used in a Will, a Court shall inquire into every material fact relating to the persons who claim to be interested under such Will, the property which is claimed as the subject of disposition, the circumstances of the testator and of his family, and into every fact a knowledge of which may conduct to the right application of the words which the testator has used. Illustrations (i) A, by his Will, bequeaths 1,000 rupees to his eldest son or to his youngest grand-child, or to his cousin, Mary; a Court may make inquiry in order to ascertain to what person the description in the Will applies. (ii) A, by his Will, leaves to B "my estate called Black Acre." It may be necessary to take evidence in order to ascertain what is the subject-matter of the bequest; that is to say, what estate of the testator's is called Black Acre. (iii) A, by his Will, leaves to B "the estate which I purchased of C". It may be necessary to take evidence in order to ascertain what estate the testator purchased of C. Section 76 - Misnomer or misdescription of object (1) Where the words used in a Will to.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 102

Title: Constitution of Residuary Legatee

State: Central

Year: 1925

A residuary legatee may be constituted by any words that show an intention on the part of the testator that the person designated shall take the surplus or residue of his property. Illustrations (i) A makes her Will, consisting of several testamentary papers, in one of which are contained the following words:"I think there Will be something led, after all funeral expenses, etc., to give to B, now at school, towards equipping him to any profession he may hereafter be appointed to". B is constituted residuary legatee. (ii) A makes his Will, with the following passage at the end of it:"I believe there Will be found sufficient in my banker's hands to defray and discharge my debts, which I hereby, desire B to do, and keep the residue for her own use and pleasure". B is constituted the residuary legatee. (iii) A bequeaths all his property to B, except certain stocks and funds, which he bequeath to C. B is the residuary legatee.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 8

Title: Of Assent to a Legacy by Executor or Administrator

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....of the fund to A. This is an implied assent to the bequest to B. (iv) Executors die after paying all the debts of the testator, but before satisfaction of specific legacies. Assent to the legacies may be presumed. (v) A person to whom a specific article has been bequeathed takes possession of it and retains it without any objection on the part of the executor. His assent may be presumed. Section 334 - Conditional assent The assent of an executor or administrator to a legacy may be conditional and if the condition is one which he has a right to enforce, and it is not performed, there is no assent. Illustrations (i) A bequeaths to B his lands of Sultanpur, which at the date of the Will, and at the death of A were subject to a mortgage for 10,000 rupees. The executor assents to the bequest, on condition that B shall within a limited time pay the amount due on the mortgage at the testator's death. The amount is not paid. There is no assent. (ii) The executor assents to a bequest on condition that the legatee shall pay him a sum of money. The payment is not made. The assent is nevertheless valid. Section 335 - Assent of executor to his own legacy (1) When the.....