Act Number: 39

Act Name: The Indian Succession Act, 1925

Year: 1925

Enactment Date: 1925-09-30

Long Title: An Act to consolidate the law applicable to intestate and testamentary succession.

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Legislative Department

Section 27: Persons held for purpose of succession to be similarly related to deceased.
    For the purpose of succession, there is no distinction—
         (a) between those who are related to a person deceased through his father, and those who are related to him through his mother; or
         (b) between those who are related to a person deceased by the full blood, and those who are related to him by the half blood; or
         (c) between those who were actually born in the lifetime of a person deceased and those who at the date of his death were only conceived in the womb, but who have been subsequently born alive.
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