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Contingency Fund of India Act, 1950 Complete Act

Title: Contingency Fund of India Act, 1950

State: Central

Year: 1950

Preamble1 - CONTINGENCY FUND OF INDIA ACT, 1950 Section1 - Short title Section2 - Establishment of the Contingency Fund of India Section3 - Custody of the Contingency Fund and withdrawals there from Section4 - Power to make rules

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Contingency Fund Act, 1957 Complete Act

Title: Contingency Fund Act, 1957

State: Karnataka

Year: 1957

Preamble 1 - KARNATAKA CONTINGENCY FUND ACT, 1957 Section 1 - Short title Section 2 - Establishment of a Contingency Fund Section 3 - Custody of the Contingency Fund and withdrawals therefrom Section 4 - Power to make rules

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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.....

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Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 11

Title: Of the Produce and Interest of Legacies

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....legacy, interest begins to run from expiration of one year from the testator's death. Exception. (1) Where the legacy is bequeathed in satisfaction of a debt, interest runs from the death of the testator. (2) Where the testator was a parent or a more remote ancestor of the legatee, or has put himself in the place of a parent of the legatee, the legacy shall bear interest from the death of the testator. (3) Where a sum is bequeathed to a minor with a direction to pay for his maintenance out of it, interest is payable from the death of the testator. Section 352 - Interest when time fixed Where a time has been fixed for the payment of a general legacy, interest begins to run from the time so fixed. The interest up to such time forms part of the residue of the testator's estate. Exception.Where the testator was a parent or a more remote ancestor of the legatee, or has put himself in the place of a parent of the legatee and the legatee is a minor, the legacy shall bear interest from the death of the testator, unless a specific sum is given by the Will for maintenance, or unless the Will contains a direction to the contrary. Section 353 - Rate of interest The.....

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Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 7

Title: Of the Duties of an Executor or Administrator

State: Central

Year: 1925

..... (4) The exhibition of an intentionally false inventory or account under this section shall be deemed to be an offence under section 193 of that Code. Section 318 - Inventory to include property in any part of India in certain cases In all cases where a grant has been made of probate or letters of administration intended to have effect throughout1[India],2[* * *] the executor or administrator shall include in the inventory of the effects of the deceased all his movable and immovable property situate in1[India] and the value of such property situate in each state shall be separately stated in such inventory, and the probate or letters of administration shall be chargeable with a fee corresponding to the entire amount or value of the property affected thereby wheresoever situate within1[India]. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, section 3 and Schedule, for "the States". 2. The words "of India" omitted by Act 48 of 1952, section 3 and Schedule II. Section 318 - Inventory to include property in any part of India in certain cases In all cases where a grant has been made of probate or letters of administration intended to have effect.....

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INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925 Section 349

Title: Legatee's title to produce of specific legacy

State: Central

Year: 1925

The legatee of a specific legacy is entitled to the clear produce thereof, if any, from the testator's death. Exception.A specific bequest, contingent in its terms, does not comprise the produce of the legacy between the death of the testator and the vesting of the legacy. The clear produce of it forms part of the residue of the testator's estate. Illustrations (i) A bequeaths his flock of sheep to B. Between the death of A and delivery by his executor the sheep are shorn or some of the ewes produce lambs. The wool and Iambs are the property of B. (ii) A bequeaths his Government securities to B, but postpones the delivery of them till the death of C The interest which falls due between the death of A and the death of C belongs to B, and must, unless he is a minor, be paid to him as it is received. (iii) The testator bequeaths all his four percent. Government promissory notes to/1 when he shall complete the age of 18. A, if he completes that age, is entitled to receive the notes, but the interest which accrues in respect of them between the testator's death and A's completing 18, form part of the residue.

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Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 120

Title: Date of Vesting when Legacy Contingent Upon Specified Uncertain Event

State: Central

Year: 1925

(1) A legacy bequeathed in case a specified uncertain event shall happen does not vest until that event happens. (2) A legacy bequeathed in case a specified uncertain event shall not happen does not vest until the happening of that event becomes impossible. (3) In either case, until the condition has been fulfilled, the interest of the legatee is called contingent. Exception.Where a fund is bequeathed to any person upon his attaining a particular age, and the will also gives to him absolutely the income to arise from the fund before he reaches that age, or directs the income, or so much of it as may be necessary, to be applied for his benefit, the bequest of the fund is not contingent. Illustration (i) A legacy is bequeathed to D in case A, B and C shall all die under the age of 18. D has a contingent interest in the legacy until A, B and C all die under 18, or one of them attains that age. (ii) A sum of money is bequeathed to A "in case he shall attain the age of 18", or "when he shall attain the age of 18". A's interest in the legacy is contingent until the condition is fulfilled by his attaining that age. (iii) An estate is bequeathed to A for life, and after his

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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,.....

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Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 8

Title: Of the Vesting of Legacies

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....and, upon the death of any of them (except the last survivor) under the age of 18, his vested interest passes, so subject, to his representatives. Section 120 - Date of vesting when legacy contingent upon specified uncertain event (1) A legacy bequeathed in case a specified uncertain event shall happen does not vest until that event happens. (2) A legacy bequeathed in case a specified uncertain event shall not happen does not vest until the happening of that event becomes impossible. (3) In either case, until the condition has been fulfilled, the interest of the legatee is called contingent. Exception.Where a fund is bequeathed to any person upon his attaining a particular age, and the will also gives to him absolutely the income to arise from the fund before he reaches that age, or directs the income, or so much of it as may be necessary, to be applied for his benefit, the bequest of the fund is not contingent. Illustration (i) A legacy is bequeathed to D in case A, B and C shall all die under the age of 18. D has a contingent interest in the legacy until A, B and C all die under 18, or one of them attains that age. (ii) A sum of money is bequeathed to A "in case.....

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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.....

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