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Indian Succession Act, 1925 |
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Preamble |
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PART I: PRELIMINARY |
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Short title |
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Definitions |
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Power of State Government to exempt any race, sect or tribe in the State from operation of Act |
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PART II: OF DOMICILE |
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Application of Part |
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Law regulating succession to deceased person's immoveable and moveable property, respectively |
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One domicile only affects succession to moveables |
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Domicile of origin of person of legitimate birth |
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Domicile of origin of illegitimate child |
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Continuance of domicile of origin |
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Acquisition of new domicile |
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Special mode of acquiring domicile in India |
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Domicile not acquired by residence as representative of foreign Government, or as part of his family |
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Continuance of new domicile |
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Minor's domicile |
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Domicile acquired by woman on marriage |
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Wife's domicile during marriage |
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Minor's acquisition of new domicile |
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Lunatic's acquisition of new domicile |
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Succession to moveable property in India in absence of proof of domicile elsewhere |
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PART III: MARRIAGE |
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Interests and powers not acquired not lost by marriage |
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Effect of marriage between person domiciled and one not domiciled in India |
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Settlement of minor's property in contemplation of marriage |
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PART IV: OF CONSANGUINITY |
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Application of Part |
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Kindred or consanguinity |
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Lineal consanguinity |
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Collateral consanguinity |
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Persons held for purpose of succession to be similarly related to deceased |
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Mode of computing of degrees of kindred |
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PART V: INTESTATE SUCCESSION |
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CHAPTER I: Preliminary |
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Application of Part |
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As to what property deceased considered to have died intestate |
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CHAPTER II: Rules in cases of Intestates other than Parsis |
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Chapter not to apply to Parsis |
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Devolution of such property |
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Where intestate has left widow and lineal descendants, or widow and kindred only, or widow and no kindred |
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Special provision where intestate has left widow and no lineal descendants |
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Where intestate has left no widow, and where he has left no kindred |
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Rights of widower |
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Rules of distribution |
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Where intestate has left child or children only |
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Where intestate has left no child, but grandchild or grandchildren |
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Where intestate has left only great-grandchildren or remoter lineal descendants |
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Where intestate leaves lineal descendants not all in same degree of kindred to him, and those through whom the more remote are descended are dead |
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Rules of distribution where intestate has left no lineal descendants |
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Where intestate's father living |
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Where intestate's father dead, but his mother, brothers and sisters living |
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Where intestate's father dead and his mother, a brother or sister, and children of any deceased brother or sister, living |
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Where intestate's father dead and his mother and children of any deceased brother or sister living |
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Where intestate's father dead, but his mother living and no brother, sister, nephew or niece |
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Where intestate has left neither lineal descendant, nor father, nor mother |
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Where intestate has left neither lineal descendant, nor parent, nor brother, nor sister |
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Children's advancements not brought into hotchpot |
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CHAPTER III: Special Rules for Parsi Intestates |
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General principles relating to intestate succession |
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Division of intestate's property among widow, widower, children and Parents |
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Division of share of predeceased child of intestate leaving lineal descendants |
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Division of property where intestate leaves no lineal descendant out leaves a widow or widower or a widow or widower of any lineal descendant |
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Division of property where intestate leaves neither lineal descendants nor a widow or widower nor a widow of any lineal descendant |
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Division of property where there is no relative entitled to succeed under the other provisions of this Chapter |
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PART VI: TESTAMENTARY SUCCESSION |
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CHAPTER I: Introductory |
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Application of certain provisions of Part to a class of wills made by Hindus, etc |
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General application of Part |
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CHAPTER II: Of Wills and Codicils |
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Person capable of making wills |
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Testamentary guardian |
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Will obtained by fraud, coercion or importunity |
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Will may be revoked or altered |
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CHAPTER III: Of the Execution of unprivileged Wills |
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Execution of unprivileged wills |
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Incorporation of papers by reference |
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CHAPTER IV: of privileged Wills |
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Privileged wills |
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Mode of making, and rules for executing, privileged wills |
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CHAPTER V: Of the Attestation, Revocation, Alteration and Revival of Wills |
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Effect of gift to attesting witness |
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Witness not disqualified by interest or by being executor |
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Revocation of will by testator's marriage |
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Revocation of unprivileged will or codicil |
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Effect of obliteration, interlineation or alteration in unprivileged will |
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Revocation of privileged will or codicil |
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Revival of unprivileged will |
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CHAPTER VI: Of the construction of Wills |
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Wording of will |
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Inquiries to determine questions as to object or subject of will |
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Misnomer or misdescription of object |
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When words may be supplied |
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Rejection of erroneous particulars in description of subject |
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When part of description may not be rejected as erroneous |
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Extrinsic evidence admissible in cases of patent ambiguity |
