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BOMBAY HINDU HEIRS' RELIEF ACT, 1866, (Maharashtra) Section 1

Title: Hindu son or grandson not liable as Such for debt of ancestor

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1866

No son or grandson of a deceased Hindu shall, merely by reason of his being such son or grandson, be liable to be sued for any of the debts of such deceased Hindu.

Government of India Act, 1858 [Repealed] Section 35

Title: Not Less Than One Tenth of Persons Recommended for Military Cadetships to Be Selected from Sons of Persons Who Have Served in India

State: Central

Year: 1858

Not less than One Tenth of the whole Number of Persons to be recommended in any Year for Military Cadetships (other than Cadetships in the Engineers and Artillery) shall be selected according to such Regulations as the Secretary of State in Council may from Time to Time make in this Behalf from among the Sons of Persons who have served in India in the Military or Civil Services of Her Majesty, or of the East India Company.

Hindu Minority and Guardinship Act,1956 Section 7

Title: Natural Guardianship of Adopted Son

State: Central

Year: 1956

The natural guardianship of an adopted son who is a minor passes, on adoption, to the adoptive father and after him to the adoptive mother.

Hindu Succession Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....of any creditor to proceed against the son, grandson or great-grandson, as the case may be; or (b) any alienation made in respect of or in satisfaction of, any such debt, and any such right or alienation shall be enforceable under the rule of pious obligation in the same manner and to the same extent as it would have been enforceable as if the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 had not been enacted. Explanation. "For the purposes of clause (a), the expression "son", "grandson" or "great-grandson" shall be deemed to refer to the son, grandson or great-grandson, as the case may be, who was born or adopted prior to the commencement of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005. (5) Nothing contained in this section shall apply to a partition, which has been effected before the 20th day of December, 2004. Explanation. "For the purposes of this section "partition" means any partition made by execution of a deed of partition duly registered under the Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908) or partition effected by a decree of a court.] Substituted by the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005, sec.3 STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS [The Hindu Succession.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Part 6

Title: Testamentary Succession

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.....

The Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972 Complete Act

State: Punjab

Year: 1972

.....it includes " sites of buildings, and other structures of such land". In the context in which clause (a) appears in section 2(5) and in view of the fact that there is a comma after the words "sites of buildings" we are of the view that the words "sites" in clause (a) does not qualify the words "other structures on such land" It should be interpreted as including other structures on such land as also sites of buildings. Bal Raj Ahuja vs State of Punjab and another, 1988 PLJ 423. 3 Definitions - In this Act' unless the context otherwise requires" (1) "appointed day" means the twenty-fourth day of January, 1971; (2) "banjar land" means land which has remained uncultivated for a continuous period of not less than four years immediately preceding the date on which the question whether such land is banjar or not arises; (3) "Collector" means the Collector of the district or any other officer not below the rank of Assistant Collector of the first grade empowered in this behalf by the State Government; (4) "family" in relation to a person means the person, the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such person and his or her minor children other than a married minor daughter;.....

Special Marriage Act, 1954 Schedule I

Title: The First Schedule

State: Central

Year: 1954

THE FIRST SCHEDULE [See section 2(b) "Degrees of prohibited relationship"] PART I 1. Mother. 2. Father's widow (step-mother). 3. Mother's mother. 4. Mother's father's widow (step grand-mother). 5. Mother's mother's mother. 6. Mother's mother's father's widow (step great grand-mother). 7. Mother's father's mother. 8. Mother's father's father's widow (step great grand-mother). 9. Father's mother. 10. Father's father's widow (step-grand mother). 11. Father's mother's mother. 12. Father's mother's father's widow (step great grand-mother). 13. Father's father's mother. 14. Father's father's father's widow (step great grand-mother). 15. Daughter. 16. Son's widow. 17. Daughter's daughter. 18. Daughter's son's widow. 19. Son's daughter. 20. Son's son's widow. 21. Daughter's daughter's daughter. 22. Daughter's daughter's son's widow. 23. Daughter's son's daughter. 24. Daughter's son's son's widow. 25. Son's daughter's daughter. 26. Son's daughter's son's widow. 27. Son's son's daughter. 28. Son's son's son's widow. 29. Sister. 30. Sister's daughter. 31. Brother's daughter. 32. Mother's sister. 33. Father's sister. .....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 7

Title: Of Void Bequests

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....from the death of the daughters whose share it was. All these provisions are valid. Section 115 - Bequest to a class some of whom may come under rules in sections 113 and 114 If a bequest is made to a class of persons with regard to some of whom it is inoperative by reason of the provisions of section 113 or section 114, such bequest shall be 1 [void in regard to those persons only, and not in regard to the whole class]. Illustrations (i) A fund is bequeathed to A for life, and after his death to all his children who shall attain the age of 25. A survives the testator, and has some children living at the testator's death. Each child of A's living at the testator's death must attain the age of 25 (if at all) within the limits allowed for a bequest. But A may have children after the testator's decease, some of whom may not attain the age of 25 until more than 18 years have elapsed after the decease of A. The bequest to A's children, therefore, is inoperative as to any child born after the testator's death; 2 [and in regard to those who do not attain the age of 25 within 18 years after A's death, but is operative in regard to the other children of A]. (ii) A fund is.....

Special Marriage Act, 1954 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1954

.....to be the Marriage Officers of the State or any part thereof.] CHAPTER 02: SOLEMNIZATION OF SPECIAL MARRIAGES OBJECTS AND REASONS "Apart from the fact that the provisions of this Act, if passed, will apply to all persons marrying there under irrespective of the religion they may profess, the other changes of importance which have been made in this clause, as compared with section 3 of Act 3 of 1872, are the following, namely :- (a) the addition of a new condition relating to idiocy and lunacy; (b) the raising of the age limit for marriage....; (c) the provision for marriages abroad between citizens of India."- S.O.R.OBJECTS AND REASONS Sub-section (3).- "In cases where a marriage is sought to be solemnized before a Marriage Officer other than the Marriage Officer within whose jurisdiction the parties are permanently residing, it is essential that the notice should be given in the place of permanent residence also, and sub-el. (2) (now sub- sec. (3)) makes provision in this behalf.-J.C.R.OBJECTS AND REASONS Sections 8-,9-and10-.- "The Joint Committee feel that it would not be in the interests of the parties to an intended marriage or in the public interest .that Courts should.....

Hindu Succession Act, 1956 Chapter II

Title: Intestate Succession

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....of any creditor to proceed against the son, grandson or great-grandson, as the case may be; or (b) any alienation made in respect of or in satisfaction of, any such debt, and any such right or alienation shall be enforceable under the rule of pious obligation in the same manner and to the same extent as it would have been enforceable as if the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 had not been enacted. Explanation.--For the purposes of clause (a), the expression "son", "grandson" or "great-grandson" shall be deemed to refer to the son, grandson or great-grandson, as the case may be, who was born or adopted prior to the commencement of the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005. (5) Nothing contained in this section shall apply to a partition, which has been effected before the 20th day of December,2004 Explanation- For the purposes of this section "partition" means any partition made by execution of a deed of partition duly registered under the Registration Act, 1908 or partition effected by a decree of a court.] ________________________________ 1. Substituted vide Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005. Previous text was When a male Hindu dies after the.....