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Section 9: Regarding Provision for the Widows of the last incumbents of resumed holdings

The Bombay Rent-free Estates Act, 1851Central Act · Act 11 of 1852

On the resumption of any lands under the Rules of this Schedule a moiety, or other portion may be continued to the Widows of the last incumbents during their lives, in cases of proved poverty and destitution.

Provision 1st.—In the case of a holding, which is recognizable as an hereditary personal Inam, the widow of a proprietor who dies without surviving male issue, or other heirs to whom his Inam will of necessity descend, is by right his sole heir, and during her life, the Inam cannot be regarded as having lapsed to Government: it should therefore, in such a case, he continued undiminished during the widow's life.

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ActThe Bombay Rent-free Estates Act, 1851
Section9
Marginal noteRegarding Provision for the Widows of the last incumbents of resumed holdings
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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