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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 NumberTitleActions
1Short title.
2Interpretation - clause.
3Taluqdars to have heritable and transferable rights in their estates.
4Rights and liabilities of persons named in second schedule.
5Grantees' rights and liabilities.
6Saving of certain redemption-suits.
7Heirlooms.
8Preparation of lists of Taluqdars and Grantees.
9Publication of lists.
10None but persons named in lists to be deemed Taluqdars or Grantees.
11Taluqdars and Grantees may transfer and bequeath.
12Rule against perpetuity.
13Restriction as to donees and legatees.
14Transfers and bequests to Taluqdars or heirs.
15Transfers and bequests to persons out of line of seccession.
16Transfers to be in writing, signed and attested.
17Further requisites to validity of gifts inter vivos.
18Gifts to religious or charitable uses.
19Sections of Succession Act applied to wills of Taluqdars.
20Bequests to religious and charitable uses.
21'Son,' 'descendants,' 'daughter,' 'brother,' 'widow,' defined.
22Special rules of succession to intestate Taluqdars and Grantees.
23General rule of succession to intestate Taluqdars and Grantees.
24Maintenance of surviving relatives of Taluqdars and Grantees.
25Grandparents, parents, and senior widows. Junior widows.
26Brothers and minor sons.
27Unmarried daughters, widows of sons and brothers and inferior widows.
28Continuance of annuities.
29Muhammadan Taluqdars and Grantees empowered to adopt.
31Reverter to ordinary law of succession.
32Saving of rights of creditors.
33Awards as to compensation and maintenance.
30Alteration of rules of intestate succession in cases of Taluqdárs and Grantees named in list 3 or list 5.
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