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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,.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 4

Title: Of Privileged Wills

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....on amilitary expedition, but not being at sea, is considered as a soldier, and canmake a privileged Will. ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 10of 1927, section 2 and Schedule I. Section 65 - Privileged Wills Any soldier being employed in anexpedition or engaged in actual warfare, 1 [or an airman so employed or engaged,] or any mariner being at sea,may, if he has completed the age of eighteen years, dispose of his property by a Will made in the manner provided in section66. Such Wills are calledprivileged Wills. Illustrations (i) A, a medical officer attached to a regiment is actually employedin an expedition. He is a soldier actually employed in an expedition, and canmake a privileged Will. (ii) A is at sea in a merchant-ship of which he is the purser. He is a mariner,and, being at sea, can make a privileged Will. (iii) A, a soldier service in thefield against insurgents, is a soldier engaged in actual warfare, and as suchcan make a privileged Will. (iv) A, a mariner of a ship, in the course of a voyage, is temporarily on shore while she islying in harbour. He is, for the purposes of this section, a mariner at sea,and can make a privileged Will. (v) A,.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 66

Title: Mode of Making, and Rules for Executing, Privileged Wills

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....ofhis Will, and theyhave been reduced into writing in hislifetime, but he has died before the instrument could be prepared and executed,such instructions shall be considered to constitute his Will, although they may not have been reduced intowriting in his presence, nor read over to him. (g) The soldier, 1 [airman] or mariner may make a Will by word of mouth bydeclaring his intentions before two witnessespresent at the same time. (h) A Will made by word of mouth shall be null at the expiration of one month after thetestator, being still alive, has ceased to be entitled to make a privileged Will. ______________________ 1. Inserted by Act 10of 1927, section 2 and Schedule I.

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.....