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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 Section 267

Title: District Judge May Order Person to Produce Testamentary Papers

State: Central

Year: 1925

(1) The District Judge may order any person to produce and bring into Court any paper or writing, being or purporting to be testamentary, which may be shown to be in the possession or under the control of such person. (2) If it is not shown that any such paper or writing is in the possession or under the control of such person, but there is reason to believe that he has the knowledge of any such paper or writing, the court may direct such person to attend for the purpose of being examined respecting the same. (3) Such person shall be bound to answer truly such questions as may be put to him by the court, and, if so ordered, to produce and bring in such paper or writing, and shall be subject to the like punishment under the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860), in case of default in not attending or in not answering such questions or not bringing in such paper or writing, as he would have been subject to in case he had been a party to a suit and had made such default. (4) The costs of the proceeding shall be in the discretion of the Judge.

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.....

Hindu Succession Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....may be coiled the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. SECTION 02: APPLICATION OF ACT (1) This Act applies- (a) to any person, who is a Hindu by religion in any of its forms or developments including a Virashaiva, a Lingayat or a follower of the Brahmo, Prarthana or Arya Samaj, (b) to any person who is a Buddhist, Jaina or Sikh by religion, and (c) to any other person who is not a Muslim, Christian, Parsi or Jew by religion, unless it is proved that any such person would not have been governed by the Hindu law or by any custom or usage as part of that law in respect of any of the matters dealt with herein if this Act had not been passed. Explanation: The following persons are Hindus, Buddhists, Jainas or Sikhs by religion, as the case may be:- (a) any child, legitimate or illegitimate, both of whose parents are Hindus, Buddhists, Jainas or Sikhs by religion; (b) any child, legitimate or illegitimate, one of whose parents is a Hindu, Buddhist, Jaina or Sikh by religion and who is brought up as a member of the tribe, community, group or family to which such parent belongs or belonged; (c) any person who is a convert.....

Registration Act, 1908 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....after the date on which, Act No. XVI of 1864, or the Indian Registration Act, 1866, or the Indian Registration Act, 1871, or the Indian Registration Act, 1877 or this Act came or comes into force, namely:- (a) instruments of gift of immovable property; (b) other non-testamentary instruments which purport or operate to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or in future, any right, title or interest, whether vested or contingent, of the value of one hundred rupees, and upwards, to or in immovable property; (c) non-testamentary instruments which acknowledge the receipt or payment of any consideration on account of the creation, declaration, assignment, limitation or extinction of any such right, title or interest; and (d) leases of immovable property from year to year, or for any term exceeding one year, or reserving a yearly rent; 12[(e) non-testamentary instruments transferring or assigning any decree or order of a court or any award when such decree or order or award purports or operates to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or in future, any right, title or interest, whether vested or contingent, of the value of.....

Hindu Succession Act, 1956 Chapter II

Title: Intestate Succession

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....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 commencement of this Act, having at the time of his death an interest in a Mitakshara coparceners property, his interest in the property shall devolve by survivorship upon the surviving members of the coparceners and not in accordance with.....

Indian Succession Act, 1925 Chapter 1

Title: Introductory

State: Central

Year: 1925

.....omitted and sub-section (1) was re-numbered as section 57 by Act 18 of 1929, section 3. 2. The word "and" and clause (c) added by Act 18 of 1929, section 3. Section 57 - Application of certain provisions of Part to a class of wills made by Hindus, etc. 1 [57.] Application of certain provisions of Part to a class of wills made by Hindus, etc. The provisions of this Part which are set out in Schedule III shall, subject to the restrictions and modifications specified therein, apply- (a) to all Wills and codicils made by any Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina on or after the first day of September, 1870, within the territories which at the said date were subject to the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal or within the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Courts of Judicature at Madras and Bombay; and (b) to all such Wills and codicils made outside those territories and limits so far as relates to immoveable property situate within those territories or limits; 2 [and (c) to all Wills and codicils made by any Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina on or after the first day of January, 1927, to which those provisions are not applied by clauses (a) and (b):] .....

Registration Act, 1908 Part III

Title: Of Registrable Documents

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....of Property Act, 1882;". Note.--section 2 of Bombay Act 14 of 1939, as amended by Bombay Act 17 of 1945, is as follows:-- "2. Application of Act.--This Act shall apply to notices in respect of suits or proceedings which relate to immovable properties situate wholly or partly in the Greater Bombay with effect from such date as may be directed by the State Government in this behalf by notification in the Official Gazette: Provided that the State Government may by similar notification direct that the provisions of this Act shall apply to such notices relating to immovable properties situate wholly or partly in such other area as may be specified in the said notification." (iii) the word "and" in clause (ee) shall be added at the end and clause (eei) inserted by Act (Bombay Act 6 of 1960), section 43, shall be deleted. 6 [7 [Uttar Pradesh: In section 18, clauses (a), (b) and (cc) be omitted. In section 18(c), omit the words and figures "and leases exempted under section 17". Section 18A 8 Delhi: Same as in Punjab. 9 Himachal Pradesh: Same as in Punjab. 10 Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh: After section 18, insert the following new section:-- "18A......

The Mappilla Wills Act, 1928 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1928

THE MAPPILLA WILLS ACT, 1928 THE MAPPILLA WILLS ACT, 1928 [Act No. 7 of 1928] PREAMBLE An Act to define the Law relating to Wills by Mappillas. WHEREAS it is expedient to define the law relating to testamentary dispositions by Mappillas governed by the Marumakkathayam or the Aliyasantana Law of Inheritance; AND WHEREAS the previous sanction of the Governor-General has been obtained to the passing of this Act; It is hereby enacted as follows:- Section 1 - Short title This Act may be called The Mappilla Wills Act, 1928. Section 2 - Commencement (i) It shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 1929. (ii) Extent.--It extends to the whole of the Presidency of Madras. (iii) Persons to whom and properties to which this Act is applicable.-- It applies to testamentary dispositions by Mappillas governed by the Marurnakkathayam or the Aliyasantana Law of Inheritance in respect of property which, but for such testamentary disposition, would devolve in accordance with the provisions of the Mappilla Succession Act, 1918. Section 3 - Testamentary dispositions by Mappillas to be governed by this Act and not by Madras Act V of 1898 Testamentary.....

Registration Act, 1908 Part XI

Title: Of the Duties and Powers of Registering Officers

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....portion so recopied and authenticated." [Note.--Section 8 of the Bombay Act 25 of 1938 runs as follows: "8. Validity of copies made prior to enactment of this Act.--Notwithstanding anything contained in the said Act (i.e. the Indian Registration Act), copies of any of the books mentioned in sub-section (1) of section 51 of the said Act or any portion of such book, prepared before the enactment of this Act and authenticated in pursuance of the order of the Registrar or Inspector-General shall for the purposes of the said Act be deemed to have taken the place of and to be the original book or portion; and all references in the said Act to the original book or portion shall be deemed to be references to the book or portion so prepared and authenticated".] (iii) in sub-section (2), for the words "18 and 89, sub-sections (2) and (4)", substitute the words "and 18 and section 89 except sub-sections (1) and (3) thereof". 10 Orissa: In its application to the State of Orissa, in section 51,-- (a) for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely,-- "(2) In Book 1 shall be filed-- (i) true copies of all documents, and (ii) all memoranda, .....