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Contents
Chapter
1. Introduction
2. Succession
3. Statutory Law
4. "Will" Defined
5. Kinds of Wills
6. Nature of the Will
7. Domicile
8. Freedom of Testation
9. Who can Make a Will
10. Requisites of a Valid Will
11. Making of Will
12. Proof of a Will
13. Will by Incorporation
14. Informal Wills
15. Time when Will Speaks
16. Revocation
17. Revocation by Destruction
18. Conditional revocation
19. Wills by Donee of Power
20. Republication
21. Alterations
22. Who can Take under a Will
23. Mohammedan Law of Wills
24. Mohammedan Law of Wakfs
25. Hindu Law of Wills
26. Construction of Wills
27. Rules of Construction under the Indian Succession Act
28. Mistakes and Misdescriptions
29. Doctrine of Ejusdem Generis
30. Doctrine of Persona Designatn
31. Subject of a Will
32. Will must be construed as a whole
33. Construction in Favour of Validity, Consistency and Reasonableness
34. Testator's Intention to be Effectuated as far as Possible
35. Contradictions
36. Extrinsic Evidence
37. Bequest Void For Uncertainty
38. Gift to Charity
39. Bequests to Charitable Gifts and Charitable Uses when Void
40. Hindu Conception of Charity
41. What May Be Disposed of by Will
42. Bequest to 'Heirs' of 'A'
43. Alternative and Substitutional Gift
44. Legacy to 'A' and his Heirs
45. Class Gifts: What is a Class Gift?
46. Legacy - When Void
47. Perpetuity
48. Fiffcct on Failure of One Bequest under a Will on Others
49. Rule Against Accumulations
50. Bequests, Devises and Legacies
51. Legacies: Further Classified
52. Contingent Interest
53. Onerous Bequests
54. Gifts on Conditions
55. Doctrine of Acceleration
56. Gift-Over on the Happening of a Condition Subsequent
57. Conditions in Restraint of Alienation
58. Gift-Over to survivors
59. Residuary Legacy
60. Implied Bequests
61. Bequest of Rents or Income
62. Legacies Subject to Liabilities
63. Bequest of Annuities
64. Legacy as Satisfaction of a Debt
65. Ademption, Meanings of
66. Failure of Legacies
67. Lapse of Legacies
68. Election
69. Donatio Mortis Causa
70. Protection to Property of Deceased
71. Office of Executor
72. Rules of Construction of Words
73. Representative Title to Property of Deceased on Succession
74. Probate, Letters of Administration and Administration of Assets of Deceasec
75. Limited Grants
76. Alteration and Revocation of Grants
77. Practice in Granting and Revoking Probates and Letters of Administration
78. Executors of their Own Wrong
79. Powers of an Executor or Administrator
80. Duties of an Executor or Administrator
81. Assent to a Legacy by Executor or Administrator
82. Payment and Apportionment of Annuities
83. Investment of Funds to Provide for Legacies
84. Produce and Interest of Legacies
85. Refunding of Legacies
86. Liability of an Executor or Administrator for Devastation
87. Grant of Succession Certificate
Salient Features - AD referendum Forms & Precedents Appendices
Subject Index
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Author Details
Hari Dev Kohli, M.A., B.T., B.L., (Gold Medalist), Ph.D
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