Last Change:

05/04/2025

The Hindu Law of Inheritance (Amendment) Act

Year: 1929

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Housing, land & property

Link to external source: http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-details-148.html
Description

An Act to alter the order in which certain heirs of a Hindu male dying intestate are entitled to succeed to his estate.

Selected provisions
Order of succession of certain heirs

A son's daughter, daughter's daughter, sister, and sister's son shall, in the order so specified, be entitled to rank in the order of succession next after a father's father and before a father's brother:
Provided that a sister's son shall not include a son adopted after the sister's death