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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 Chapter 23

Title: Of Gifts in Contemplation of Death

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....person who has obtained the certificate, probate or letters of administration, as the case may be. ______________________ 1. Repealed partly by Act 39 of 1925 and finally by Act 1 of 1938. Section 197 - Prohibition of exercise of certain powers by curators ( 1) Where a certificate has been granted under Part X or under the Succession Certificate Act, 18891(7 of 1889), or a grant of probate or letters of administration has been made, a curator appointed under this Part shall not exercise any authority lawfully belonging to the holder of the certificate or to the executor or administrator. (2) Payment of debts, etc., to curators.-All persons who have paid debts or rents to a curator authorised by a Court to receive them shall be indemnified, and the curator sh all be responsible for the payment thereof to the person who has obtained the certificate, probate or letters of administration, as the case may be. ______________________ 1. Repealed partly by Act 39 of 1925 and finally by Act 1 of 1938. Section 198 - Curator to give security and may receive remuneration (1) The District Judge shall take from the curator security for the faithful discharge of his trust,.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Part 8

Title: Representative Title to Property of Deceased on Succession

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....outside those limits, in so far as they relate to immoveable property situated within those limits. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, section 3 and Schedule, for "the State". 2. Substituted by Act 16 of 1962, section 4, for Sub-section (2). 3. Inserted by Act 26 of 2002, section 3. 4. Substituted by Act 52 of 1964, section 3 and Schedule II., for "ordinary civil jurisdiction". Section 213 - Right as executor or legatee when established (1) No right as executor or legatee can be established in any Court of Justice, unless a Court of competent jurisdiction in 1 [India] has granted probate of the Will under which the right is claimed, or has granted letters of administration with the Will or with a copy of an authenticated copy of the Will annexed. 2 [(2) This section shall not apply in the case of Wills made by Muhammadans 3 [or Indian Christians], and shall only apply- (i) in the case of Wills made by any Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina where such Wills are of the classes specified in clauses (a) and (b) of section 57; and (ii) in the case of Wills made by any Parsi dying, after the commencement of the Indian Succession (Amendment) Act,.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 214

Title: Proof of Representative Title a Condition Precedent to Recovery Through the Courts of Debts from Debtors of Deceased Persons

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....to execute against such a debtor a decree or order for the payment of his debt, except on the production, by the person so claiming of- (i) a probate or letters of administration evidencing the grant to him of administration to the estate of the deceased, or (ii) a certificate granted under section 31 or section 32 of the Administrator-General's Act, 1913 (3 of 1913), and having the debt mentioned therein, or (iii) a succession certificate granted under Part X and having the debt specified therein, or (iv) a certificate granted under the Succession Certificate Act, 18891(7 of 1889), or (v) a certificate granted under Bombay Regulation No. VIII of 1827, and, if granted after the first day of May, 1889 having the debt specified therein. (2) The word' 'debt'' in sub-section (1) includes any debt except rent, revenue or profits payable in respect of land used for agricultural purposes. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 52 of 1964, section 3 and Schedule II., for "ordinary civil jurisdiction".

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Section 32

Title: Devolution of Such Property

State: Central

Year: 1925

Section 32 - Devolution of such property The property of an intestate devolves upon the wife or husband, or upon those who are of the kindred of the deceased, in the order and according to the rules hereinafter contained in this Chapter. 1 [***] ___________________ 1. Explanation omitted by Act 26 of 2002, section 2.

INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925 Section 113

Title: Bequest to person not in existence at testator's death subject to prior bequest

State: Central

Year: 1925

Where a bequest is made to a person not in existence at the time of the testator's death, subject to a prior bequest contained in the will, the later bequest shall be void, unless it comprises the whole of the remaining interest of the testator in the thing bequeathed. Illustrations (i) Property is bequeathed to A for his life, and after his death to his eldest son for life, and after the death of the latter to his eldest son. At the time of the testator's death, A has no son. Here the bequest to A's eldest son is a bequest to a person not in existence at the testator's death. It is not a bequest of the whole interest that remains to the testator. The bequest to A's eldest son for his life is void. (ii) A fund is bequeathed to A for his life, and after his death to his daughters. A survives the testator. A has daughters some of whom were not in existence at the testator's death. The bequest to A's daughters comprises the whole interest that remains to the testator in the thing bequeathed. The bequest to A's daughters is valid. (iii) A fund is bequeathed to A for his life, and after his death to his daughters, with a direction that, if any of them marries under the age of

INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925 Section 170

Title: Exoneration of specific legatee's stock in joint stock company

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....of the call. These payments must be borne by A's estate. (ii) A has agreed to take 50 shares in an intended joint-stock company, and has contracted to pay up 100 rupees in respect of each share, which sum must be paid before his title to the shares can be completed. A bequeathes these shares to B. The estate of A must make good the payments which were necessary to complete A's title. (iii) A bequeaths to B his shares in a certain railway. B accepts the legacy. After A's death a call is made in respect of the shares. B must pay the call. (iv) A bequeaths to B his shares in a joint-stock company. B accepts the bequest. Afterwards the affairs of the company are wound up, and each shareholder is called upon for contribution. The amount of the contribution must be borne by the legatee. (v) A is the owner often shares in a railway company. At a meeting held during his lifetime a call is made of fifty rupees per share, payable by three instalments. A bequeaths his shares to B, and dies between the day fixed for the payment of the first and the day fixed for the payment of the second instalment, and without having paid the first instalment. A's estate must pay the first.....

INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925 Section 112

Title: Bequest to person by particular description, who is not in existence at testator's death

State: Central

Year: 1925

Where a bequest is made to a person by a particular description, and there is no person in existence at the testator's death who answers the description, the bequest is void. Exception.If property is bequeathed to a person described as standing in a particular degree of kindred to a specified individual, but his possession of it is deferred until a time later than the death of the testator, by reason of a prior bequest or otherwise; and if a person answering the description is alive at the death of the testator, or comes into existence between that event, such later time and the property shall, at such later time, go to that person, or, if he is dead, to his representatives. Illustrations (i) A bequeaths 1,000 rupees to the eldest son of B. At the death of the testator, B has no son. The bequest is void. (ii) A bequeaths 1,000 rupees to B for life, and after his death to the eldest son of C. At the death of the testator. C had no son. Afterwards, during the life of B, a son is born to C. Upon B's death the legacy goes to C's son. (iii) A bequeaths 1,000 rupees to B for life, and after his death to the eldest son of C. At the death of the testator, C had no son. Afterwar

INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925 Section 44

Title: Where intestate's father dead and his mother, a brother or sister, and children of any deceased brother or sister living

State: Central

Year: 1925

If the intestate's father is dead but the intestate's mother is living, and if any brother or sister and the child or children of any brother or sister who may have died in the intestate's lifetime are also living, then the mother and each living brother or sister, and the living child or children of each deceased brother or sister, shall be entitled to the property in equal shares, such children (if more than one) taking in equal shares only the shares which their respective parents would have taken if living at the intestate's death. Illustration A, the intestate, leaves his mother, his brothers John and Henry, and also one child of a deceased sister, Mary, and two children of George, a deceased brother of the half blood who was the son of his father but not of his mother. The mother takes one-fifth, John and Henry each take one-fifth, the child of Mary takes one-fifth, and the two children of George divide the remaining one-fifth equally between them.

INDIAN SUCCESSION ACT, 1925 Section 163

Title: Change by operation of law of subject of specific bequest between date of will and testator's death

State: Central

Year: 1925

Where a thing specifically bequeathed undergoes a change between the date of the will and the testator's death, and the change takes place by operation of law, or in the course of execution of the provisions of any legal instrument under which the thing bequeathed was held, the legacy is not adeemed by reason of such change. Illustrations (i) A bequeaths to B "all the money which I have in the 5 1/2 per cent. loan of the Central Government". The securities for the 5 1/2 per cent. loan are converted during A's lifetime into 5 per cent. stock. (ii) A bequeaths to B the sum of 2,000 invested in Consolsin the names of trustees for A. The sum of 2,000 is transferred by the trustees into A's own name. (iii) A bequeaths to B the sum of 10,000 rupees in promissory notes of the Central Government which he has power under his marriage settlement to dispose of by will. Afterwards, in A's lifetime, the fund is converted into Consols by virtue of an authority contained in the settlement. No one of these legacies has been adeemed.