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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.....

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.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 4

Title: Of the Practice in Granting and Revoking Probates and Letters of Administration

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....the A.O. 1948, for "thewhole of British India". 2. The words "of India" omitted by the A.O.1950. 3. Inserted by A.O. 1937. 4. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951,section 3 andSchedule, for "the States". 5. 1st April, 1937. 6. Added by the A. O. 1948. 7. The words "of India" omitted by Act 42of 1953, section 4 and Schedule III. 8. 15th August, 1947. Section 273 - Conclusiveness of probate or letters of administration Probate or letters of administration shall have effect overall the property and estate, moveable or immoveable, of the deceased,throughout the State in which the same is or are granted, and shall beconclusive as to the representative title against all debtors of the deceased,and all persons holding property which belongs to him, and shall afford fullindemnity to all debtors, paying their debts and all persons delivering up suchproperty to the person to whom such probate or letters of administration havebeen granted: Provided that probates and letters of administrationgranted- (a) by a High Court, or (b) by a District Judge, where the deceased at the time ofhis death had a fixed place of abode situate within the jurisdiction of suchJudge, and such.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 13

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

State: Central

Year: 1925

..... (d) the right in which the petitioner claims; (e) the absence of any impediment under section 370 or under any other provision of this Act or any other enactment, to the grant of the certificate or to the validity thereof if it were granted; and (f) the debts and securities in respect of which the certificate is applied for. ( 2) If the petition contains any averment which the person verifying it knows or believes to be false, or does not believe to be true, that person shall be deemed to have committed an offence under section 198 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860). 1[(3) Application for such a certificate may be made in respect of any debt or debts due to the deceased creditor or in respect of portions thereof] _____________________ 1. Added by Act 14 of 1928, section 2. Section 372 - Application for certificate ( 1) Application for such a certificate shall be made to the District Judge by a petition signed and verified by or on behalf of the applicant in the manner prescribed by the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908) for the signing and verification of a plaint by or on behalf of a plaintiff, and setting forth the following.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Part 10

Title: Succession Certificates

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....in this Part referred to as a certificate) shall not be granted under this Part with respect to any debt or security to which a right is required by section 212 or section 213 to be established by letters of administration or probate: Provided that nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to prevent the grant of a certificate to any person claiming to be entitled to the effects of a deceased Indian Christian, or to any part thereof, with respect to any debt or security, by reason that a right thereto can be established by letters of administration under this Act. (2) For the purposes of this Part, "security" means- (a) any promissory note, debenture, stock or other security of the Central Govern­ment or of a State Government; (b) any bond, debenture, or annuity charged by Act of Parliament1[of the United Kingdom] on the revenues of India; (c) any stock or debenture of, or share in, a company or other incorporated institution; (d) any debenture or other security for money issued by, or on behalf of, a local authority; (e) any other security which the2[State Government] may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be a security for the.....

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 5

Title: Of the Attestation, Revocation, Alteration and Revival of Wills

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....validity to a privileged Will, or by the burning, tearing or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same. Explanation.In order to the revocation of a privileged Will or codicil by an act accompanied by such formalities as would be sufficient to give validity to a privileged Will, it is not necessary that the testator should at the time of doing that act be in a situation which entitles him to make a privileged Will. Section 73 - Revival of unprivileged Will (1) No unprivileged Will or codicil, nor any part thereof, which has been revoked in any manner, shall be revived otherwise than by the re-execution thereof, or by a codicil executed in manner hereinbefore required, and showing an intention to revive the same. (2) When any Will or codicil, which has been partly revoked and afterwards wholly revoked, is revived, such revival shall not extend to so much thereof as has been revoked before the revocation of the whole thereof, unless an intention to the contrary is shown by the Will or codicil.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 71

Title: Effect of Obliteration, Interlineation or Alteration in Unprivileged Will

State: Central

Year: 1925

No obliteration, interlineation or other alteration made in any unprivileged Will after the execution thereof shall have any effect, except so far as the words or meaning of the Will have been thereby rendered illegible or undiscernible, unless such alteration has been executed in like manner as hereinbefore is required for the execution of the Will: Provided that the Will, as so altered, shall be deemed to be duly executed if the signature of the testator and the subscription of the witnesses is made in the margin or on some other part of the Will opposite or near to such alteration, or at the foot or end of or opposite to a memorandum referring to such alteration, and written at the end or some other part of the Will.

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 6

Title: Of the Construction of Wills

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 conduct to the right application of the words which the testator has used. Illustrations (i) A, by his Will, bequeaths 1,000 rupees to his eldest son or to his youngest grand-child, or to his cousin, Mary; a Court may make inquiry in order to ascertain to what person the description in the Will applies. (ii) A, by his Will, leaves to B "my estate called Black Acre." It may be necessary to take evidence in order to ascertain what is the subject-matter of the bequest; that is to say, what estate of the testator's is called Black Acre. (iii) A, by his Will, leaves to B "the estate which I purchased of C". It may be necessary to take evidence in order to ascertain what estate the testator purchased of C. Section 76 - Misnomer or misdescription of object (1) Where the words used in a Will to.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 101

Title: Rules of Construction Where Will Purports to Make Two Bequests to Same Person

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....intended to make the second bequest instead of or in addition to the first; if there is nothing in the Will to show what he intended, the following rules shall have effect in determining the construction to be put upon the Will: (a) If the same specific thing is bequeathed twice to the same legatee in the same Will or in the Will and again in the codicil, he is entitled to receive that specific thing only. (b) Where one and the same Will or one and the same codicil purports to make, in two places, a bequest to the same person of the same quantity or amount of anything, he shall be entitled to one such legacy only. (c) Where two legacies of unequal amount are given to the same person in the same Will, or in the same codicil, the legatee is entitled to both. (d) Where two legacies, whether equal or unequal in amount, are given to the same legatee, one by a Will and the other by a codicil, or each by a different codicil, the legatee is entitled to both legacies. Explanation: In clauses (a) to (d) of this section, the word "Will" does not include a codicil. Illustrations (i) A, having ten shares, and no more, in the Imperial Bank of India, made his Will, which contains.....