Character and property of executor or administrator as such.

    (1) The executor or administrator, as the case may be, of a deceased person is his legal representative for all purposes, and all the property of the deceased person vests in- him as such.
     (2) When the deceased was a Hindu, Muhammadan, Budhist, Sikh, ¹[Jaina or Parsi] or an exempted person, nothing herein contained shall vest in an executor or administrator any property of the deceased person which would otherwise have passed by survivorship to some other person.