Last Change:
05/04/2025
The Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) Act
Year: 1928
Type: Domestic law
Rights Category: Housing, land & property
Link to external source:
http://bdcode.gov.bd/upload/bdcodeact/2019-11-03-13-56-24-152_The_Hindu_Inheritance_Removal_of_Disabilities.pdf
Description
An Act amend the Hindu Law relating to exclusion from inheritance of certain classes of heirs, and to remove to certain doubts.
Selected provisions
Persons not to be excluded from inheritance or rights in joint-family property
Notwithstanding any rule of Hindu Law or custom to the contrary, no person governed by the Hindu Law, other than a person who is and has been from birth a lunatic or idiot, shall be excluded from inheritance or from any right or share in joint-family property by reason only of any disease, deformity, or physical or mental defect.