| Sections | Indian Succession Act, 1925 |
| | Preamble |
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| | PART I: PRELIMINARY |
| 1. | Short title |
| 2. | Definitions |
| 3. | 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 |
| 4. | Application of Part |
| 5. | Law regulating succession to deceased person's immoveable and moveable property, respectively |
| 6. | One domicile only affects succession to moveables |
| 7. | Domicile of origin of person of legitimate birth |
| 8. | Domicile of origin of illegitimate child |
| 9. | Continuance of domicile of origin |
| 10. | Acquisition of new domicile |
| 11. | Special mode of acquiring domicile in India |
| 12. | Domicile not acquired by residence as representative of foreign Government, or as part of his family |
| 13. | Continuance of new domicile |
| 14. | Minor's domicile |
| 15. | Domicile acquired by woman on marriage |
| 16. | Wife's domicile during marriage |
| 17. | Minor's acquisition of new domicile |
| 18. | Lunatic's acquisition of new domicile |
| 19. | Succession to moveable property in India in absence of proof of domicile elsewhere |
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| | PART III: MARRIAGE |
| 20. | Interests and powers not acquired not lost by marriage |
| 21. | Effect of marriage between person domiciled and one not domiciled in India |
| 22. | Settlement of minor's property in contemplation of marriage |
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| | PART IV: OF CONSANGUINITY |
| 23. | Application of Part |
| 24. | Kindred or consanguinity |
| 25. | Lineal consanguinity |
| 26. | Collateral consanguinity |
| 27. | Persons held for purpose of succession to be similarly related to deceased |
| 28. | Mode of computing of degrees of kindred |
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| | PART V: INTESTATE SUCCESSION |
| | CHAPTER I: Preliminary |
| 29. | Application of Part |
| 30. | As to what property deceased considered to have died intestate |
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| | CHAPTER II: Rules in cases of Intestates other than Parsis |
| 31. | Chapter not to apply to Parsis |
| 32. | Devolution of such property |
| 33. | Where intestate has left widow and lineal descendants, or widow and kindred only, or widow and no kindred |
| 33A. | Special provision where intestate has left widow and no lineal descendants |
| 34. | Where intestate has left no widow, and where he has left no kindred |
| 35. | Rights of widower |
| 36. | Rules of distribution |
| 37. | Where intestate has left child or children only |
| 38. | Where intestate has left no child, but grandchild or grandchildren |
| 39. | Where intestate has left only great-grandchildren or remoter lineal descendants |
| 40. | 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 |
| 41. | Rules of distribution where intestate has left no lineal descendants |
| 42. | Where intestate's father living |
| 43. | Where intestate's father dead, but his mother, brothers and sisters living |
| 44. | Where intestate's father dead and his mother, a brother or sister, and children of any deceased brother or sister, living |
| 45. | Where intestate's father dead and his mother and children of any deceased brother or sister living |
| 46. | Where intestate's father dead, but his mother living and no brother, sister, nephew or niece |
| 47. | Where intestate has left neither lineal descendant, nor father, nor mother |
| 48. | Where intestate has left neither lineal descendant, nor parent, nor brother, nor sister |
| 49. | Children's advancements not brought into hotchpot |
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| | CHAPTER III: Special Rules for Parsi Intestates |
| 50. | General principles relating to intestate succession |
| 51. | Division of intestate's property among widow, widower, children and Parents |
| 53. | Division of share of predeceased child of intestate leaving lineal descendants |
| 54. | Division of property where intestate leaves no lineal descendant out leaves a widow or widower or a widow or widower of any lineal descendant |
| 55. | Division of property where intestate leaves neither lineal descendants nor a widow or widower nor a widow of any lineal descendant |
| 56. | 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 |
| | CHAPTER I: Introductory |
| 57. | Application of certain provisions of Part to a class of wills made by Hindus, etc |
| 58. | General application of Part |
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| | CHAPTER II: Of Wills and Codicils |
| 59. | Person capable of making wills |
| 60. | Testamentary guardian |
| 61. | Will obtained by fraud, coercion or importunity |
| 62. | Will may be revoked or altered |
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| | CHAPTER III: Of the Execution of unprivileged Wills |
| 63. | Execution of unprivileged wills |
| 64. | Incorporation of papers by reference |
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| | CHAPTER IV: of privileged Wills |
| 65. | Privileged wills |
| 66. | Mode of making, and rules for executing, privileged wills |
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| | CHAPTER V: Of the Attestation, Revocation, Alteration and Revival of Wills |
| 67. | Effect of gift to attesting witness |
| 68. | Witness not disqualified by interest or by being executor |
| 69. | Revocation of will by testator's marriage |
| 70. | Revocation of unprivileged will or codicil |
| 71. | Effect of obliteration, interlineation or alteration in unprivileged will |
| 72. | Revocation of privileged will or codicil |
| 73. | Revival of unprivileged will |
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| | CHAPTER VI: Of the construction of Wills |
| 74. | Wording of will |
| 75. | Inquiries to determine questions as to object or subject of will |
| 76. | Misnomer or misdescription of object |
| 77. | When words may be supplied |
| 78. | Rejection of erroneous particulars in description of subject |
| 79. | When part of description may not be rejected as erroneous |
| 80. | Extrinsic evidence admissible in cases of patent ambiguity |
