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 30: Alteration of rules of intestate succession in cases of Taluqdárs and Grantees named in list 3 or list 5.
    Any Taluqdár or Grantee whose name has been entered in the third or fifth of the lists mentioned in section eight, or his heir or legatee, may, at any time hereafter, present to the Chief Commissioner of Oudh a declaration in writing, executed and registered in the manner required by this Act for the execution and registration of an instrument of gift, that he is desirous that the succession to his estate shall, in case of his intestacy, cease to be regulated in the manner described in section twenty-two, and that it shall in future be regulated by the ordinary law to which members of his tribe and religion are subject.
    On receiving such declaration, the said Chief Commissioner shall cause to be inserted the name of such Taluqdár or Grantee, heir or legatee, in the fourth or sixth (as the case may be) of the lists mentioned in section eight, and shall cause a note thereof to be made in the proper place in the third or fifth (as the case may be) of the said lists, and the succession to such estate shall thenceforward, in case of intestacy, be regulated in the manner provided by section twenty-three.
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