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Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 24

Title: Kindred or Consanguinity

State: Central

Year: 1925

Kindred or consanguinity is the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 26

Title: Collateral Consanguinity

State: Central

Year: 1925

(1) Collateral consanguinity is that which subsists between two persons who are descended from the same stock or ancestor, but neither of whom is descended in a direct line from the other. (2) For the purpose of ascertaining in what degree of kindred any collateral relative stands to a person deceased, it is necessary to reckon upwards from the person deceased to the common stock and then downwards to the collateral relative, a degree being allowed for each person, both ascending and descending.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 33

Title: Where Intestate Has Left Widow and Lineal Descendants, or Widow and Kindred Only, or Widow and No Kindred

State: Central

Year: 1925

Section 33 - Where intestate has left widow and lineal descendants, or widow and kindred only, or widow and no kindred Where the intestate has left a widow- (a) if he has also left any lineal descendants, one-thirds of his property shall belong to his widow, and the remaining two-thirds shall go to his lineal descendants, according to the rules hereinafter contained; (b) 1 [save as provided by section 33A] if he has left no lineal descendant, but has left persons who are of kindred to him, one-half of his property shall belong to his widow, and the other half shall go to those who are kindred to him, in the order and according to the rules hereinafter contained; (c) if he has left none who are of kindred to him, the whole of his property shall belong to his widow. ___________________ 1. Inserted by Act 40 of 1926, section 2.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 40

Title: Where Intestate Leaves Lineal Descendants Not All in Same Degree of Kindred to Him, and Those Through Whom the More Remote Are Descended Are Dead

State: Central

Year: 1925

(1) If the intestate has left lineal descendants who do not all stand in the same degree of kindred to him, and the persons through whom the more remote are descended from him are dead, the property shall be divided into such a number of equal shares as may correspond with the number of the lineal descendants of the intestate who either stood in the nearest degree of kindred to him at his decease, or, having been of the like degree of kindred to him, died before him, leaving lineal descendants who survived him. (2) One of such shares shall be allotted to each of the lineal descendants who stood in the nearest degree of kindred to the intestate at his decease; and one of such shares shall be allotted in respect of each of such deceased lineal descendants; and the share allotted in respect of each of such deceased lineal descendants shall belong to his surviving child or children or more remote lineal descendants, as the case may be; such surviving child or children or more remote lineal descendants always taking the share which his or their parent or parents would have been entitled to respectively if such parent or parents had survived the intestate. Illustrations (i) A had

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 28

Title: Mode of Computing of Degrees of Kindred

State: Central

Year: 1925

Degrees of kindred are computed in the manner set forth in the table of kindred set out in Schedule I. Illustrations (i) The person whose relatives are to be reckoned, and his cousin-german, or first cousin, are, as shown in the table, related in the fourth degree; there being one degree of ascent to the father, and another to the common ancestor, the grandfather; and from him one of ascent to the uncle, and another to the cousin-german, making in all four degrees. (ii) A grandson of the brother and a son of the uncle, i.e., a great-nephew and a cousin-german, are in equal degree, being each four degree removed. (iii) A grandson of a cousin-german is in the same degree as the grandson of a great-uncle, for they are both in the sixth degree of kindred.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 34

Title: Where Intestate Has Left No Widow, and Where He Has Left No Kindred

State: Central

Year: 1925

Where the intestate has left no widow, his property shall go to his lineal descendants or to those who are of kindred to him, not being lineal descendants, according to the rules hereinafter contained; and, if he has left none who are of kindred to him, it shall go to the Government.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 25

Title: Lineal Consanguinity

State: Central

Year: 1925

(1) Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between two persons, one of whom is descended in a direct line from the other, as between a man and his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, and so upwards in the direct ascending line; or between a man and his son, grandson, great-grandson and so downwards in the descending line. (2) Every generation constitutes a degree, either ascending or descending. (3) A person's father is related to him in the first degree, and so likewise is his son; his grandfather and grandson in the second degree; his great-grandfather and great-grandson in this third degree, and so on.

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.....

The Christian Succession Act, 1921 (Cochin) Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1921

.....dies leaving movable property in Cochin, in the absence of proof of any domicile elsewhere, succession to the property is regulated by this Act. Section 6 - Kindred or consanguinity Kindred or consanguinity is the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or common ancestor. Lineal consanguinity.- Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between two persons, one of whom is descended in a direct line from the other, as between a man and his father, grandfather and great-grand-father and so upwards in the direct ascending line, or between a man, his son, grandson, great-grandson and so downwards in the direct descending line. Every generation constitutes a degree, either ascending or descending. A man's father is related to him in the first degree, and so likewise is his son; his grandfather and grandson in the second degree; his great-grandfather and great-grandson in the third. Collateral consanguinity.- Collateral consanguinity is that which subsists between two persons who are descended from the same stock or ancestor, but neither of whom is descended in a direct line from the other. For the purpose of ascertaining in what degree of.....

The Cochin Makkathayam Thiyya Act, 1940 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1940

.....them. Section 3 - Saving Nothing in this Act shall confer any right on the parties to a marriage dissolved before this Act comes into force. Section 4 - Act to constitute law in cases of intestate succession Except as provided for by any other law for the time being in force, the rules herein contained shall constitute the law of Cochin applicable to all cases of intestate succession among Thiyyas. Section 5 - Definitions In this Act unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context. (i) "Thiyya" includes Ezhava. Chova, Billava, Marayam, Thandan and others recognized as such. (ii) "Son", "Daughter" or any word which expresses relationship denotes only a legitimate relative. When owing to any physical defect or deformity, it is not possible to ascertain the sex of any of the heirs of an intestate, such heir shall, for the purpose of this Act, be regarded as a female. (iii) Kindred or consanguinity.- Kindred or consanguinity is the connection or relation of persons descended from the same stock or ancestor. Lineal consanguinity.- Lineal consanguinity is that which subsists between two persons, one of whom is descended in a direct line from the.....