The Indian Succession Act

Character and property of executor or administrator as such

Right to intestate’s property

Right as executor or legatee when established

Proof of representative title a condition precedent to recovery through the Courts of debts from  debtors of deceased persons

Effection certificate of subsequent probate or letters of administration

Grantee of probate or administration alone to sue, etc., until same revoked


REPRESENTATIVE TITLE TO PROPERTY OF DECEASED ON SUCCESSION


(1) No right to any part of the property of a person who has
died intestate can be established in any Court of Justice, unless letters of administration have first been
granted by a Court of competent jurisdiction.

(2) This section shall not apply in the case of the intestacy of a Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh,
Jaina, 1[Indian Christian or Parsi].

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