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 7: Power to charge settled property for jointure of widow.
    It shall be lawful for the said Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit and Framjee Dinshaw Petit, and for any person upon whom the said title of Baronet shall from time to time descend, when in the actual enjoyment of the said title, and who shall not refuse, neglect or discontinue to use, for the respective periods hereinbefore in that behalf mentioned, the said names of Dinshaw Manockjee Petit” as herein before enacted, either before or after his marriage with any woman or women by any deed or deeds, writing or writings, with or without power of revocation to be by him, sealed and delivered in the presence of two or more credible witnesses (but subject and, without prejudice to any annuity or annuities, if any, which shall be then subsisting and payable by virtue of any appointment made under and in pursuance of this present power), to limit and appoint unto any woman or women whom he shall marry for her or their life or lives, and for her or their jointure or jointures in bar of dower or other legal or customary rights any annuity or yearly sum not exceeding the sum of ten thousand rupees, clear of all taxes, charges and deductions whatsoever to commence and take effect immediately after the decease the person limiting or appointing the same and to be issuing and payable Petit of the dividends, interest and, annual income, of the said stocks, funds and securities, and to be, paid and payable by equal half-yearly payments on, the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first day of December, the first of the said half-yearly payments to be made on the half-yearly day which shall first happen after the decease of the person who shall have appointed such annuity or yearly sum: Provided always that in case any person on whom such title shall descend shall have refused or neglected to use the names of Dinshaw Manockjee Petit or shall discontinue to use such names for six calendar months consecutively during his natural life, every such, limitation and appointment, either previously or afterwards made by him, shall be and become inoperative and invalid, and no such annuity thereby created or appointed shall take effect or be, payable, or chargeable, on the said stocks, funds and securities, notwithstanding any such limitation or appointment.
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