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Succession Act, 1925

Topic Serial # Content Case Law
 

PREAMBLE

 
0 PREAMBLE
 

PART – I

 
 

PRELIMINARY

 
1 Short title, extent and application
2 Definitions
3 Power of Provincial Government to exempt any race, sect or tribe in the Province from operation of Act
4 Application of Part
5 Law regulating succession to deceased persons immoveable and moveable property, respectively Case Law
6 One domicile only affects succession to moveables
7 domicile only affects succession to moveables
8 Domicile of origin of illegitimate child
9 Continuance of domicile of origin
10 Acquisition of new domicile
11 Special mode of acquiring domicile in Pakistan
12 Domicile not acquired by residence as representative of foreign Government, or as part of this family
13 Continuance of new domicile
14 Minors domicile
15 Domicile acquired by woman on marriage
16 Wife’s domicile during marriage
17 Minors acquisition of new domicile
18 Lunatics acquisition of new domicile
19 Succession to moveable property in Pakistan, in absence of proof domicile elsewhere
20 Interests and powers not acquired not lost by marriage
21 Effect of marriage between person domiciled and one not domiciled in Pakistan
22 Settlement of minors property in contemplation of marriage
23 Application of Part
24 Kindred or consanguinity Case Law
25 Lineal consanguinity
26 Collateral Consanguinity
27 Persons held for purpose of succession to be similarly related to deceased
28 Mode of computing of degrees of kindred
 

PART V

 
 

INTESTATE SUCCESSION

 
 

CHAPTER I,

 
 

PRELIMINARY

 
29 Application of Part Case Law
30 As to what property deceased considered to have died, intestate
 

CHAPTER II

 
 

RULES IN CASE OF INTESTATES OTHER THAN PARSIS

 
31 Chapter not to apply to Parsis
32 Devolution of such property
33 Where intestate has left widow and lineal descendants, or widow and kindred only, or widow and no kindred
33 33-A Special provision where intestate has left widow and no lineal descendants
34 Where intestate has left no widow, and where he has left no kindred
35 Rights of widower
36 Rules of distribution
37 Where intestate has left child or children only
38 Where intestate has left so child, but grand-child or grand children
39 Where intestate has left only great grand children or remoter lineal descendants
40 Where intestate leaves lineal descendants not all in same degree of kindred to him, and those through whom the more remote are descended are dead
41 Rules of distribution where intestate has left no lineal descendants
42 Where intestates father living
43 Where intestates father dead but his mother, brothers and sisters living
44 Where intestates father dead and his mother, a bothers and sisters living
45 Where intestates father dead and his mother and children of any deceased brother or sister living
46 Where intestates father dead, but his mother living and no brother, sister, nephew or nice
47 Where intestate has left neither lineal descendant, nor father, nor mother
48 Where intestate has left neither lineal descendant, nor parent, nor brother, nor sister
49 Children’s advancements not brought in to hotchpot
 

CHAPTER III

 
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