Section 15 of Hindu Succession Act
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…
Section 16 of Hindu Succession Act
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…
Section 17 of Hindu Succession Act
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…
Section 18 of Hindu Succession Act
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…
Section 19 of Hindu Succession Act
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,…
Section 20 of Hindu Succession 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…
Section 21 of Hindu Succession Act
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,…
Section 22 of Hindu Succession Act
Preferential right to acquire property in certain cases.― (1) Where, after the commencement of this Act, an interest in any immovable property of an intestate, or in any business carried on by him or her,…
Section 23 of Hindu Succession Act
Special provision respecting dwelling-houses.― Omitted by the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 (39 of 2005), s. 4 (w.e.f. 9-9-2005).