Succession Act - Law Dictionary Search Results
Widow
the statutory trusts for the issue. And see (English) Legitimacy Act, 1926, s. 9, as to rights of succession of a bastard and succession to a bastard dying intestate. The Statutory Trusts (s. 47) are, in effect,
Endorsee
Endorsee, means the person in whose favour an endorsement is made, and in the case of successive endorsements, the person in whose favour the last endorsement is made. [Multimodal Transportation of Goods Act, 1993 (28
Inter-vivos
passes by conveyance, the transaction would be said to be inter vivos as distinguished from a case of succession or devise, Hindustan Lever v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 9 SCC 438 (460), Companies Act s. 394. (Transfer
Keep your definitions linked to case research
Regulated by usage
office' and when so construed that part of the definition would only apply where the ordinary rules of succession under the Hindu law are modified by usage and succession has to be deter-mined in accordance with the … by usage, the phrase 'regulated by usage' in s. 6(9) of the Madras Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1951, must be construed along with the phrase 'succession to this office' and when so construed that part
Office of profit
Endowment is to be appointed by the Government of India but it is a body corporate with perpetual succession acting within the four corners of the Act. Merely because the committee or the members of the committee
Administrator
appointed by competent authority to administer the estate of a deceased person when there is no executor. [Indian Succession Act (39 of 1925) s. 2(a)] --he to whom the property of a person dying intestate, or without executors
Marumakkattayam law
inheritance in which descent is traced through the female line; but does not include the aliyasantana law. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(h)] Marumakkathayam literally means descent through sister's children. There is a fundamental difference
Guardian
person empowered to act as such by or under any enactment relating to any Court of Wards. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956, s. 3 (1) (b)] It means a person having the care of the person of a minor
Maintenance
roof over the head, Mangat Mal v. Punni Devi, AIR 1996 SC 172: (1995) 6 SCC 88. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956, s. 14 (1)] It includes-- (i) in all cases, provision for food, clothing, residence, education, medical attendance
Marriage
by the (English) Marriage Act, 1823 (4 Geo. 4, c. 76), which requires publication of banns on three successive Sundays before marriage in the church of the parish wherein the parties dwell, or in the churches of
- ‹ Prev
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- Next ›
- Last »
Try the research workspace - 7 days free