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Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 92

Title: Implied Gift to Objects of Power in Default of Appointment

State: Central

Year: 1925

Where property is bequeathed to or for the benefit of certain objects as a specified person may appoint or for the benefit of certain objects in such proportions as a specified person may appoint, and the Will does not provide for the event of no appointment being made; if the power given by the Will is not exercised, the property belongs to all the objects of the power in equal shares. Illustration A, by his Will bequeaths a fund to his wife, for her life, and directs that at her death it shall be divided among his children in such proportions as she shall appoint. The widow dies without having made any appointment. The fund Will be divided equally among the children.

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 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,.....

Cotton Ginning and Pressing Factories Act, 1925 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1925

COTTON GINNING AND PRESSING FACTORIES ACT, 1925 COTTON GINNING AND PRESSING FACTORIES ACT, 1925 12 of 1925 18th March, 1925 "The Indian Cotton Committee which was appointed in 1917 in Chapter XVI of their Report recommended certain measures including the licensing of cotton ginning and pressing factories, to prevent such malpractices as damping, mixing and adulteration, which are injurious to the quality and reputation of Indian cotton. The recommendations of the Committee, however, involved an excessive amount of official interference. The object of the present Bill is to put the trade in a position to protect itseif by providing for the marking of bales and the record of ownership, and by providing further that unmarked bales are not tenderable in fulfilment of a contract, if marked bales are demanded by the purchaser. The Bill also makes provision for the maintenance of register for statistical returns, for the use of correct scales and weights, and for the structural improvement of ginning and pressing factories. The Bill is based on the recommendations of the Indian Central Cotton Committee, and is suppelmentary to the Cotton Transport Act, 1923. " -Gazette of.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Complete Act

Title: Indian Succession Act, 1925

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....- Short title Section2 - Definitions Section3 - Power of State Government to exempt any race, sect or tribe in the State from operation of Act Part 2 Section4 - Application of Part Section5 - Law regulating succession to deceased person's immovable and movable property, respectively Section6 - One domicile only affects succession to movables Section7 - Domicile of origin of person of legitimate birth Section8 - Domicile of origin of illegitimate child Section9 - Continuance of domicile of origin Section10 - Acquisition of new domicile Section11 - Special mode of acquiring domicile in India Section12 - Domicile not acquired by residence as representative of foreign Government, or as part of his family Section13 - Continuance of new domicile Section14 - Minor's domicile Section15 - Domicile acquired by woman on marriage Section16 - Wife's domicile during marriage Section17 - Minor's acquisition of new domicile Section18 - Lunatic's acquisition of new domicile Section19 - Succession to movable property in India in absence of proof of domicile elsewhere Part 3 Section20 - Interests and powers not acquired nor lost by marriage Section21 - Effect of marriage.....

Provident Funds Act, 1925 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....policy. In order to rive effect to these suggestions and also to certain other minor points it is considered desirable to amend the existing Act and to re-enact it in a consolidated form." -Gazette of India. 1924, Part V, p. 122. Amending Act 46 of 1975; At present every retired Central Service Class I officer entitled to pension is prohibited from taking up commercial employment before the expiry of two years from the date of his retirement unless he obtains the previous sanction of the President for taking up such employment. If such a pensioner accents any commercial employment without the previous sanction of the President. no pension is payable to him in respect of any period for which he is so employed or for such longer period as The President may direct [vide rule 10 of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules 1972.] 2. In the interest of purity of administration. it is considered necessary to impose similar restrictions, with suitable safeguards in the case also of members of Central Ser- vices Class I entitled to the benefits of a contributory Provident Fund. For this purpose. the Bill seeks to amend the Provident Funds Act. 1925. 3. The Bill seeks to achieve.....

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.....

Bombay Betting Tax Act, 1925 Complete Act

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1925

.....the Government treasury, within fifteen days from the last day of the month in which the amount was so received. RULE 06: POWER TO ENTER RACE COURSE, ETC. The officer empowered under section 7 or 9 or any officer duly authorised by him in this behalf may enter the race course, totalisator premises or enclosure set apart for making bets during the meetings with a view to satisfying himself that the provisions of the Act and these rules are being complied with. RULE 07: REPEAL AND SAVING On the commencement of these Rules - (a) the Bombay Totalisator Tax Rules, 1925, (b) the Bombay Betting Tax Rules, 1931, and (c) Part II of the Hyderabad Horse Racing and Betting Tax Rules, 1339 Fasli. shall stand repealed : Provide that anything done or any action taken under any of the rules so repealed shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of these rules. Maharashtra State Acts

Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1925 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....(b) fire. unless caused by the actual fault or privity of the carrier: (c) perils, dangers and accidents of the sea or other navigable waters: (d) act of God; (e) act of war; (f) act of public enemies: (g) arrest or restraint of princes, rulers of people, or seizure under legal process; (h) quarantine restriction; (i) act or omission of the shipper or owner of the goods, his agent, or representative; (j) strikes or lock-outs or stoppage or restraint of labour from whatever cause, whether partial or general; (k) riots and civil commotions; (1) saving or attempting to save life or property at sea; (m) wastage in bulk or weight or any other loss or damage arising from inherent defect, quality, or vice of the goods; (n) insufficiency of packing; (o) insufficiency or inadequacy of marks; (p) latent defects not discoverable by due diligence; (q) any other cause arising without the actual fault or privity of the carrier, or without the fault or neglect of the agents or servants of the carrier, but the burden of proof shall be on the person claiming the benefit of this exception to show that neither the actual fault or privity of the carrier nor the fault or neglect of the.....

Soldiers (Litigation) Act, 1925 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....Indian soldiers serving under war conditions. The Ordinance was replaced in the first instance by an Act passed in 1915, and the provisions of that Act were re-enacted, with certain amendments, in the Indian Soldiers (Litigation) Act, 1918. The Act applies to Indian soldiers serving under war conditions and provides inter alia for the postponement in certain circumstances of civil and revenue proceedings in which an unrepresented Indian soldier is a party and for the deduction from periods of limitation in suits, appeals or applications by Indian soldiers of the periods during which they have been serving under war conditions. The Act applies to service under war conditions during the war and for six months thereafter, and to other service which is declared by the Governor-General in Council to be service under war conditions. It was suggested that the protection required in these matters by Indian soldiers serving under war conditions was also required by Indian soldiers serving on garrison duty overseas and in certain areas in India. Local Governments and Administrations were accordingly consulted in regard to the working of the existing Act. They unanimously accept the.....