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Start Free TrialCotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1925 Section 5
Title: Returns
State: Central
Year: 1925
.....the weekly returns, and shall publish in such manner as {Subs. by the A.O.1937 for "the G.G.in C.may direct".} [it thinks fit], a statement showing the total number of bales pressed in the State during the week and from the commencement of the season to the end of the week, to which the returns relate : Provided that the number of bales pressed in any individual factory shall not be published. (3) If default is made in submitting any return as required by sub-section (1), the owner of the factory shall be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees. (4) Where the owner of a cotton pressing factory has notified to the prescribed authority that the work of pressing bales in that factory has been suspended it shall not be necessary of the owner to submit returns under sub-section (1) until such work has been resumed. Explanation.--In this section "season" means the period notified in this behalf by the State Government in the Official Gazette.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian 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.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Succession Act, 1925 Section 327
Title: Abatement of General Legacies
State: Central
Year: 1925
If the assets, after payment of debts, necessary expenses and specific legacies, are 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.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian 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.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Succession Act, 1925 Section 312
Title: Survival of Powers on Death of One of Several Executors or Administrators
State: Central
Year: 1925
Upon the death of one or more of several executors or administrators, in the absence of any direction to the contrary in the Will or grant of letters of administration, all the powers of the office become vested in the survivors or survivor.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Succession Act, 1925 Section 311
Title: Powers of Several Executors or Administrators Exercisable by One
State: Central
Year: 1925
When there are several executors or administrators, the powers of all may, in the absence of any direction to the contrary, be exercised by any one of them who has proved the Will or taken out administration. Illustrations (i) One of several executors has power to release a debt due to the deceased. (ii) One has power to surrender a lease. (iii) One has power to sell the property of the deceased whether movable or immovable. (iv) One has power to assent to a legacy. (v) One has power to endorse a promissory note payable to the deceased. (vi) The Will appoints A, B, C and D to be executors, and directs that two of them shall be a quorum. No act can be done by a single executor.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionINDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925 Section 310
Title: Purchase by executor or administrator of deceased's property
State: Central
Year: 1925
If any executor or administrator purchases, either directly or indirectly, any part of the property of the deceased, the sale is voidable at the instance of any other person interested in the property sold.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 6
Title: Of the Powers of an Executor or Administrator
State: Central
Year: 1925
.....absence of such an endorsement or annexure authorise an executor or administrator to act otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this section. Section 308 - General powers of administration An executor or administrator may, in addition to, and not in derogation of any other powers of expenditure lawfully exercisable by him, incur expenditure (a) on such acts as may be necessary for the proper care or management of any property belonging to any estate administered by him; and (b) with the sanction of the High Court, on such religious, charitable and other objects, and on such improvements, as may be reasonable and proper in the case of such property. Section 309 - Commission or agency charges An executor or administrator shall not be entitled to receive or retain any commission or agency charges at a higher rate than that for the time being fixed in respect of the Administrator-General by or under the Administrator-General's Act, 1913 (3 of 1913). Section 310 - Purchase by executor or administrator of deceased's property If any executor or administrator purchases, either directly or indirectly, any part of the property of the deceased, the sale is.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Succession Act, 1925 Section 302
Title: Directions to Executor or Administrator
State: Central
Year: 1925
Where probate or letters of administration in respect of any estate has or have been granted under this Act, the High Court may, on application made to it, give to the executor or administrator any general or special directions in regard to the estate or in regard to the administration thereof.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Succession Act, 1925 Section 291
Title: Administration Bond
State: Central
Year: 1925
(1) Every person to whom any grant of letters of administration, other than a grant under section 241, is committed, shall give a bond to the District Judge with one or more surety or sureties, engaging for the due collection, getting in, and administering the estate of the deceased, which bond shall be in such form as the Judge may, by general or special order, direct. (2) When the deceased was Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina or an exempted person (a) the exception made by sub-section (1) in respect of a grant under section 241 shall not operate; (b) the District Judge may demand a like bond from any person to whom probate is granted.
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