The Indian Succession Act, 1925 — Bare Act, All Sections & Free PDF
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Overview
An Act to consolidate the law applicable to intestate and testamentary succession.
Sections (Showing 1 to 10 of 240)
Section 1 to Section 10 (10 Sections)
Definitions.
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-- (a) administrator means a person appointed by competent authority to administer the estate of a decease...
Power of State Government to exempt any race, sect or tribe in the State from operation of Act.
(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, either retrospectively from the sixteenth day of March, 1865, or prospectively, exempt from the operation of ...
Application of Part.
This Part shall not apply if the deceased was a Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh or Jaina.
Law regulating succession to deceased person?s immoveable and moveable property, respectively.
(1) Succession to the immoveable property in 1 [India], of a person deceased shall be regulated by the law of 1 [India], wherever such person may have had his domicile at the time ...
One domicile only affects succession to moveables.
A person can have only one domicile for the purpose of the succession to his moveable property.
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 child, in the cou...
Domicile of origin of illegitimate child.
The domicile of origin of an illegitimate child is in the country in which, at the time of his birth, his mother was domiciled.
Continuance of domicile of origin.
The domicile of origin prevails until a new domicile has been acquired.
Acquisition of new domicile.
A man acquires a new domicile by taking up his fixed habitation in a country which is not that of his domicile of origin. Explanation .--A man is not to be deemed to have taken up ...
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