Succession Act, 1925, Section 278 -- Will - Letters of administration - Not mandatory in Delhi - However, this does not mean that letters of administration need not at all be applied and that it cannot be granted...........
Succession Act, 1925, Section 278 -- Will - Letters of administration - Probate Court does not decide title of a property and does not specify or decide what is extent of ownership interest of a deceased/testator in a property - Question of title or share of deceased would be decided in appropriate civil proceedings between parties...........
Hindu Succession Act, 1956 -- Right to inheritance - Conversion to Islam - A Hindu Convert does not lose right to inherit property under the Act, as change of religion and loss of caste have long ceased to be grounds of forfeiture of property, as per S.1 of Caste Disabilities Removal Act - Only disqualification to inheritance on the ground that person has ceased to be..........
Hindu Succession Act, 1956, Section 26 -- Disqualification to inheritance - Conversion to other religion - S.26 of the Act does not disqualify a convert - It only disqualifies the descendants of convert who are born to convert after such conversion from inheriting the property of any of their Hindu relatives...........
Succession Act, 1925 -- No evidence to prove that deceased Mahant had renounced the world and had become a Sanyasi and petitioner failed to establish that he has succeeded to deceased Mahant - Petitioner did not produce any material to support his claim - Collector justified in holding that property of Mahant stands vested in State Government, as there is no legal heir of..........
Succession Act, 1925 -- Succession is regulated by custom or usage of institution, unless the founder of a Math or religious institution has laid down the principle governing succession to endowment...........
Hindu Succession Act, 1956, Section 29 -- Escheat - It is a doctrine which recognizes the State as a paramount sovereign in whom property would vest only upon a clear and established case of a failure of heirs...........
Hindu Succession Act, 1956, Section 29 -- Escheat - Where a founder or his line of heirs is extinct and properties escheat to State, State which receives a dedicated property is subject to trust and cannot treat it in the manner of a secular property...........
Hindu Succession Act, 1956, Section 6 -- Partition - Right of daughters - Grandfather bequeathing half share of undivided Hindu Family property to his son for life interest and after death of son vested remainder to grandsons - Son dying intestate - Held, daughters having partible interest are entitled to preliminary decree of partition...........
Hindu Succession Act, 1956, Section 8, 4, Hindu Widow, Section 2 -- Property of pre-deceased son - Right of widow/mother after remarriage - Succession opened in the year 1972 when son died - Succession of son's estate shall be governed by S.8 of 1956 Act - Mother being class-I heir u/s 8 of 1956 Act naturally succeeded to the estate of her son in the absence of any other..........
