Testamentary Succession Wills

Your grandfather writes a will leaving his gold chain to you, ten thousand rupees to a cousin, and everything else to your aunt. Before he dies, he melts the chain into a bracelet, and the cousin passes away a month ahead of him. What do you get, what does the cousin's family get, and who takes the leftovers? Part VI of the Indian Succession Act has a name and a rule for every one of these moments: specific legacy, ademption, lapse and residue.

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A will is the legal declaration of a testator's intention about property after death (s.2(h)); Part VI of the Indian Succession Act 1925 says who can make one, how legacies vest, lapse, fail or are adeemed, and which conditions and remote bequests are void.

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