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MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Chapter VI

Title: HUSBAND'S LIABILITY FOR BREACH OF TRUST OF DEVASTATION

State: Central

Year: 1874

1 [CHAPTERVI Husband's liabilityfor Wife's Breach of Trust or Devastation _______________________ 1.Inserted by Act 18of 1927 Sec. 3.

MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Complete Act

Title: MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874

State: Central

Year: 1874

Preamble1 - MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Chapter I Section1 - Short title Section2 - Extent and application Section3 - Commencement [Repealed] Chapter II Section4 - Married women's earnings to be their separate property Chapter III Section5 - Married women may effect policy of insurance Section6 - Insurance by husband for benefit of wife Chapter IV Section7 - Married women may take legal proceedings Section8 - Wife's liability for post-nuptial debts Chapter V Section9 - Husband not liable for wife's ante-nuptial debts ChapterVI - HUSBAND'S LIABILITY FOR BREACH OF TRUST OF DEVASTATION Section10 - Extent of husband's liability for wife's breach of trust or devastation

MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Section 10

Title: Extent of husband's liability for wife's breach of trust or devastation

State: Central

Year: 1874

Where a woman is a trustee, or administratrix, either before or after marriage, her husband shall not, unless he acts or inter meddles in the trust or administration, be liable for any breach of trust committed by her, ; or for any misapplication, loss or damage to the estate of the deceased caused or made by her, or for any loss to such estate arising from her neglect to get in any part of the property of the deceased.]

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Part 9

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

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....or suggestion, or by concealing from the Court something material to the case; or (c) the grant was obtained by means of an untrue allegation of a fact essential in point of law to justify the grant, though such allegation was made in ignorance or inadvertently; or (d) the grant has become useless and inoperative through circumstances; or (e) the person to whom the grant was made has wilfully and without reasonable cause omitted to exhibit an inventory or account in accordance with the provisions of Chapter VII of this Part, or has exhibited under that Chapter an inventory or account which is untrue in a material respect. Illustrations (i) The Court by which the grant was made had no jurisdiction. (ii) The grant was made without citing parties who ought to have been cited. (iii) The Will of which probate was obtained was forged or revoked. (iv) A obtained letters of administration to the estate of B, as his widow, but it has since transpired that she was never married to him. (v) A has been taken administration to the estate of B as if he had died intestate, but a Will has since been discovered. (vi) Since probate was granted, a latter Will has been.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 13

Title: Of the Liability of an Executor or Administrator for Devastation

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....order for the grant of the certificate to him. (3) If the Judge cannot decide the right to the certificate without determining questions of law or fact which seem to be too intricate and difficult for determination in a summary proceeding, he may nevertheless grant a certificate to the applicant if he appears to be the person having prima facie the best title thereto. (4) When there are more applicants than one for a certificate, and it appears to the Judge that more than one of such applicants are interested in the estate of the deceased, the Judge may, in deciding to whom the certificate is to be granted, have regard to the extent of interest and the fitness in other respects of the applicants. Section 374 - Contents of certificate When the District Judge grants a certificate, he shall therein specify the debts and securities setforth in the application for the certificate, and may thereby empower the person to whom the certificate is granted (a) to receive interest or dividends on, or (b) to negotiate or transfer, or (c) both to receive interest or dividends on, and to negotiate or transfer, the securities or any of them. Section 375 - Requisition of security.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 368

Title: Liability of Executor or Administrator for Devastation

State: Central

Year: 1925

When an executor or administrator misapplies the estate of the deceased or subjects it to loss or damage, he is liable to make good the loss or damage so occasioned. Illustrations (i) The executor pays out of the estate an unfounded claim. He is liable to make good the loss. (ii) The deceased had a valuable lease renewable by notice which the executor neglects to give at the proper time. The executor is liable to make good the loss. (iii) The deceased had a lease of less value than the rent payable for it, but terminable on notice at a particular time. The executor neglects to give the notice. He is liable to make good the loss.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Complete Act

Title: Indian Succession Act, 1925

State: Central

Year: 1925

..... Section383 - Revocation of certificate Section384 - Appeal Section385 - Effect on certificate of previous certificate, probate or letters of administration Section386 - Validation of certain payments made in good faith to holder of invalid certificate Section387 - Effect of decisions under this Act, and liability of holder of certificate thereunder Section388 - Investiture of inferior courts with jurisdiction of District Court for purposes of this Act Section389 - Surrender of superseded and invalid certificates Section390 - Provisions with respect to certificates under Bombay Regulation VIII of 1827 Part 11 Section391 - Saving Section392 - Repeals Schedule1 - SCHEDULE 1 Schedule2 - SCHEDULE 2 Schedule3 - SCHEDULE 3 Schedule4 - SCHEDULE 4 Schedule5 - SCHEDULE 5 Schedule6 - SCHEDULE 6 Schedule7 - SCHEDULE 7 Schedule8 - SCHEDULE 8 Schedule9 - SCHEDULE 9

MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT, 1874 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1874

.....the first day of January, 1866, and for insurances on lives by persons married before or after that day : AND WHEREAS by the Indian Succession Act, 1865, section 4, it is enacted that no person shall by marriage acquire any interest in the property of the person whom he or she marries, nor become incapable of doing any act in respect of his or her own property, which he or she could have done, if unmarried : AND WHEREAS by force of the said Act all women to whose marriages it applies are absolute owners of all property vested in, or acquired by, them, and their husbands do not by their marriage acquire any interest in such property, but the said Act does not protect such husbands from liabilities on account of the debts of their wives contracted before marriage, and does not expressly provide for the enforcement of claims by or against such wives: It is hereby enacted as follows :- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE This Act may be called the Married Women's Property Act, 1874- SECTION 02: EXTENT AND APPLICATION 2[It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.] But nothing herein contained applies to any married woman who at the time of her marriage.....

Succession Act, 1925 Complete Act

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 conduce to the right application of the words which the testator has used. SECTION 76: MISNOMER OR MISS DESCRIPTION OF OBJECT (1) Where the words used in a will to designate or describe a legatee or a class of legatees sufficiently show what is meant, an error in the name or description shall not prevent the legacy from taking effect. (2) A mistake in the name of a legatee may be corrected by a description of him, and a mistake in the description of a legatee may be corrected by the name. SECTION 77: WHEN WORDS MAY BE SUPPLIED Where any word material to the full expression of the meaning has been omitted, it may be supplied by the context. SECTION 78: REJECTION OF ERRONEOUS PARTICULARS IN DESCRIPTION OF SUBJECT If the thing which the testator intended to bequeath can be sufficiently identified.....