Varun Kumar Jha

Computation of degrees.― (1) For the purposes of determining the order of succession among agnates or cognates, relationship shall be reckoned from the intestate to the heir in terms of degrees of ascent or degrees… 

Property of a female Hindu to be her absolute property.― (1)Any property possessed by a female Hindu, whether acquired before or after the commencement of this Act, shall be held by her as full owner… 

General rules of succession in the case of female Hindus.― (1) The property of a female Hindu dying intestate shall devolve according to the rules set out in section 16,― (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in… 

Order of succession and manner of distribution among heirs of a female Hindu.― The order of succession among the heirs referred to in section 15 shall be, and the distribution of the intestate’s property among… 

Special provisions respecting persons governed by marumakkattayam and atiyasantana laws.― The provisions of sections 8, 10, 15 and 23 shall have effect in relation to persons who would have been governed by the marumakkattayam law… 

Full blood preferred to half blood.― Heirs related to an intestate by full blood shall be preferred to heirs related by half blood, if the nature of the relationship is the same in every other… 

Mode of succession of two or more heirs.― If two or more heirs succeed together to the property of an intestate, they shall take the property,― (a) save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act,… 

Right of child in womb.― A child who was in the womb at the time of the death of an intestate and who is subsequently born alive shall have the same right to inherit to… 

Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths.― Where two persons have died in circumstances rendering it uncertain whether either of them, and if so which, survived the other, then, for all purposes affecting succession to property,…