Act Number: 1

Act Name: The Oudh Estates Act, 1869

Year: 1869

Enactment Date: 1869-01-12

Long Title: An Act to define the rights of Taluqdárs and others in certain estates in Oudh, and to regulate the succession thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 12: Rule against perpetuity.
    No transfer or bequest under this Act shall be valid whereby the vesting of the thing transferred or bequeathed may be delayed beyond the life-time of one or more persons living at the decease of the transferee or testator and the minority of some person who shall be in existence at the expiration of that period, and to whom, if he attains full age, the thing transferred or bequeathed is to belong.
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