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The Punjab Custom (Power to Contest) Act, 1920 Complete Act

State: Haryana

Year: 1920

.....disposition of property." "Appointment of an heir" includes any adoption made or purporting to be made according to custom. 3. Scope of Act. This Act shall apply only in respect of alienations of immovable property or appointments of heirs made by persons who in regard to such alienations or appointments are governed by custom. 4. Savings. This Act shall not affect any right to contest any alienation or appointment of an heir made before the date on which this Act comes into force. 5. Rights of females. Nothing in this Act shall apply to any alienation or appointment of an heir by a female. 6. Limitation on the right to contest alienations and appointments of heirs. Subject to the provisions contained in section 4 and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in section 5, (See Haryana Code, Volume 1) Punjab Laws Act, 1S72, no person shall contest any alienation of ancestral immoveable property or any appointment of an heir to such property on the ground that such alienation or appointment is contrary to custom, unless such person is descended in male lineal descent from the great-great-grandfather of the persons making the alienation or.....

Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954 Complete Act

State: Delhi

Year: 1954

.....purpose or a work of public utility and declared as such by the Chief Commissioner or acquired under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, or any other enactment other than this Act, relating to acquisition of land for a public purpose. (3) It shall come into force at once. (4) The declaration of the Chief Commissioner under clause (c) of sub-section (2) shall be conclusive evidence that the land is held and occupied for a public purpose or a work of public utility. Section2 Repeal (1) The following Acts, in so far as they apply to areas to which this Act extends, are hereby repealed (i) the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, as modified by Punjab Act No. 9 of 1939; (ii) the Agra Tenancy Act, 1901; (iii) the Punjab Tenants (Security of Tenure) Act, 1950. (iv) the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887, in so far as its provisions are inconsistent with this Act. (v) the U.P. Land Revenue Act, 1901, in so far as its provisions are inconsistent with this Act, and (vi) so much of any other law or of any rule having the force of law for the time being in force as is inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. Section3 Definition In this Act, unless the context otherwise.....

The Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1955 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1955

THE PEPSU TENANCY AND AGRICULTURAL LANDS ACT, 1955 THE PEPSU TENANCY AND AGRICULTURAL LANDS ACT, 1955 ( ACT NO. 13 OF 1955 ) Contents SN Subject 1. PRELIMINARY 2. RESERVATION OE LAND FOR PERSONAL CULLTIVATION 3. GENERAL RIGHTS OF TENANCY 4. ACQUISITION OF PROPIETARY RIGHTS BY TENANTS 5. CEILING ON LAND AND AQUISITION AND DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS AREA 6. CONSTITUTION OF LAND COMMISSION 7. MISCELLANEOUS [ Received the assent of the President on the 4th March, 1955, and was first published in the PATIALA AND EAST PUNJAB STATES UNION GAZETTE, Extraordinary, of the 4th March, 1955]. 1 2 3 4 Year No. Short title Whether affected by later legislation 1955 1955 13 13 The Pepsu Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1955 Amended by- Pepsu Act No. 27 of 1955. Pepsu Act No. 9 of 1956. Pepsu Act No. 15 of 1956. Punjab Act No. 43 of 1957. Punjab Act No. 3 of 1959. Punjab Act No. 16 of 1962. Punjab Act No. 27 of 1962. Punjab Act No 11 of 1968. Punjab Adoption of Laws (State and Concurrent subjects).....

The Punjab Colonization of Government Lands Act, 1912 Complete Act

State: Haryana

Year: 1912

.....with the provisions of section 21 to succeed a female, to whom a tenancy was first allotted.] CHAPTER I Preliminary 4. Application of the Act. This Act shall, unless the (Substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950) [State] Government otherwise directs, apply to land to which the provisions of the Government Tenants (Punjab) Act, 1893, have been applied and to any other land to which the (Substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950) [State] Government may by notification in the official Gazette apply it and which at the time of the notification was the property of the (Substituted for the words "Crown for the purposes of the Province" by the Adaptation of Laws (Third Amendment) Order, 1951) [State Government]: Provided that (Inserted by Act 38 of 1920) [unless the (Substituted for the word "Provincial" by the Adaptation of Laws Order, 1950) [State] Government by general or special order otherwise directs] nothing in sections 20, 21, 22 and 23, or in the proviso to section 14, of this Act, shall ( The words "without the previous sanction of the Government in Council" omitted by ibid) apply (The words.....

Punjab Act 5 of 1912 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1912

.....any area to which the Government tenants (Punjab) Act, 1893, has been applied. "Prescribed" means sanctioned by the 1[State] Government under this Act or under the Act hereby repealed. XVI of 1887. "Improvements" means such improvements as defined in section 4(19) of the 2Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887, as the tenant is permitted to make under the conditions applicable to his tenancy. "Tenant" means any person holding land in a colony as a tenant of 3[Government] and includes the predecessors and successors in interest of a tenant. 4 [Original tenant" means any male to whom a tenancy is first allotted by the Collector, and includes the male transferee of such a tenant and any male nominated by the Collector in accordance with the provisions of section 21 to succeed a female, to whom a tenancy was first allotted. CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY III of 1893 4. This Act, shall, unless the 3[State] Government otherwise directs apply to land to which the provisions of the Government Tenants (Punjab) Act, 1893, have been applied and to any other land to which the 3[State] Government may by notification in the Official Gazette apply it and which at the time of the notification was.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 54

Title: Division of Property Where Intestate Leaves No Lineal Descendant but Leaves a Widow or Widower of Any Lineal Descendant

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....among the relatives of the intestate in the order specified in Part 1 of Schedule II; and the next-of-kin standing first in PartI of that Scheduleshall be preferredto those standing second, the second to the third and so on in succession,provided that the property shallbe so distributed that each male and female standing in the same degree ofpropinquity shall receive equal shares; (e) if there are no relatives entitled to the residue underclause (d), the whole of the residue shall be distributed in proportion to the shares specified among the persons entitled to receive shares under this section.] ___________________ 1. Substituted by Act 51 of 1991, section 4.

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

Citizenship Act, 1955 Section 4

Title: Citizenship by Descent

State: Central

Year: 1955

.....or nationality of another country within six months of attaining full age.] (2) If the Central Government so directs, a birth shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to have been registered with its permission, notwithstanding that its permission was not obtained before the registration. (3) For the purposes of the proviso to sub-section (1), any 1[person] born outside undivided India who was, or was deemed to be, a citizen of India at the commencement of the Constitution shall be deemed to be a citizen of India by descent only. _______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 39 1992 section 2, for "any male person" w.e.f. 10-12-1992. 2. Sub-sec 1 substituted by Citizenship Amdt Act, 2003 (6 of 2004).

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 53

Title: Division of Share of Predeceased Child of Intestate Leaving Lineal Descendants

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....the intestate has died intestate which such child would have taken if living at the intestate's death shall be in accordance with the following rules, namely: (a) If such deceased child was a son, his widow and children shall take shares in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter as if he had died immediately after the intestate's death: Provided that where such deceased son has left a widow or a widower of a lineal descendant but no lineal descendant, the residue of his share after such distribution has been made shall be divided in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter as property of which the intestate has died intestate, and in making the division of such residue the said deceased son of the intestate shall not be taken into account. (b) If such deceased child was a daughter, her share shall be divided equally among her children. (c) If any child of such deceased child has also died during the lifetime of the intestate, the share which he or she would have taken if living at the intestate's death, shall be divided in like manner in accordance with clause (a) or clause (b) as the case may be. (d) Where a remoter lineal descendant of the intestate.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 55

Title: Division of Property Where Intestate Leaves Neither Lineal Descendants nor a Widow or Widower nor a Widow of Any Lineal Descendant

State: Central

Year: 1925

Section 55 - Division of property where intestate leaves neither lineal descendants nor a widow or widower nor a widow of any lineal descendant When a Parsi dies leaving neither lineal descendants nor awidow or widower nor 1 [awidow or widower of any lineal descendant], his or her next-of-kin, in the order set forth in Part II of Schedule II, shall be entitled to succeed to the whole of the property ofwhich he or she dies intestate. The next-of-kinstanding first in Part II of that Schedule shall be preferred to those standing second, the second to thethird, and so on in succession, provided that the property shall be so distributed that 1 [each male and female standing inthe same degree of propinquity shallreceive equal shares]. ___________________ 1. Substituted by Act 51 of 1991, section 5.