Act Number: 6

Act Name: The Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit Act, 1893

Year: 1893

Enactment Date: 1893-03-09

Long Title: An Act for settling Bonds of the Municipal Corporation of the City of Bombay producing an annual income of one lakh and twenty five thousand rupees and a Mansion-house and hereditaments called Petit Hall in the Island of Bombay, the property of Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, Baronet, so as to accompany and support the title and dignity of a Baronet lately conferred by Her Present Majesty Queen Victoria on him for and during the term of his natural life, and from and immediately after his decease to hold to his second son, Framjee Dinshaw Petit, Esquire, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, and in default of such issue with remainder to the heirs male of the body of the said Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, and for other purposes connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 2: Heirs of Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit to take his name.
    The said Framjee Dinshaw Petit and the heirs male of his body and all other the heirs male of the body of the said Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit to whom the said title and dignity shall descend, pursuant to the limitations of the Patent whereby the said dignity was granted, shall take upon themselves respectively the names of Dinshaw Manockjee Petit in lieu and in the place of any other name or names whatever; and the said Framjee Dinshaw Petit, and also such heirs male of his body and all such other the heirs male of the said Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit severally and successively, shall be called by the names of Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, and by those names shall name, style and write themselves respectively, upon all occasions whatever.
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