The Goa Succession, Special Notaries and Inventory Proceeding Act, 2012
State Act of Goa · Act 23 of 2016429 provisions
The enactment
| Long title | To consolidate and amend the law of intestate and testamentary succession, notarial law and the laws relating to partition of an inheritance and matters connected therewith. |
|---|---|
| Type | Act |
| Citation | Act 23 of 2016 |
| Year | 2016 |
| Jurisdiction | State of Goa |
| Status | In force as published by the source |
| Provisions published | 429 |
| Subjects | civil, taxation, family |
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- Section 1 Short title, extent, commencement and application
- Section 2 Definitions
- Section 3 Succession
- Section 4 Types of Succession
- Section 5 Types of successors: Heirs and legatees
- Section 6 Inheritance
- Section 7 Simultaneous death of the estate leaver and the successor
- Section 8 Opening of the succession
- Section 9 Competence to succeed
- Section 10 Incompetence to succeed by reason of unworthiness to succeed
- Section 11 Consequence of declaration of unworthiness to succeed
- Section 12 Re-acquisition of competence to succeed
- Section 14 Partition by inventory
- Section 15 Partition by deed
- Section 16 Inheritance is indivisible till partition is effected
- Section 17 Consequences of transfer of specific asset of inheritance
- Section 18 Right of co-heir to claim the inheritance in its entirety
- Section 19 Right to demand partition
- Section 20 Partition of assets of joint family
- Section 22 Devolution of inheritance under different titles
- Section 23 Freedom to accept or renounce
- Section 24 Nullity of restricted acceptance or renunciation
- Section 25 Capacity to accept or renounce
- Section 26 Acceptance or renunciation by one of the spouses only
- Section 28 Acceptance or renunciation of inheritance left to a deaf and dumb person
- Section 29 Form of acceptance
- Section 30 Gratuitous transfer of inheritance or share therein
- Section 31 Consequences of Court decision declaring a person to be an heir
- Section 32 Absence of consensus among heirs to accept or renounce inheritance
- Section 33 Transmission of right to accept
- Section 34 Indivisibility of renunciation
- Section 35 How renunciation is effected
- Section 36 Consequences of renunciation
- Section 37 Implications of renunciation of disposable share
- Section 38 When acceptance may be challenged
- Section 39 Subrogation by creditor
- Section 40 Prohibition to renounce
- Section 42 Inheritance at abeyance
- Section 43 Temporary management
- Section 44 Notice to accept or renounce the inheritance
- Section 45 Liabilities of the inheritance
- Section 47 Liability of the usufructuary
- Section 48 Legacy of maintenance or lifetime pension
- Section 49 Rights and duties of the heirs in respect of the inheritance
- Section 50 Bonafide satisfaction of the legacies
- Section 51 When legal succession takes place and its extent
- Section 52 Order of legal succession
- Section 53 Proximity of degree
- Section 54 Succession per capita
- Section 55 Accretion upon renunciation of the inheritance
- Section 57 Direct and collateral line
- Section 58 Types of direct line of kinship
- Section 59 How degrees are counted in the direct line
- Section 60 How degrees are counted in the collateral line
- Section 61 Incapacity to inherit by legal succession
- Section 67 Joint representatives
- Section 69 When filiation is disputed
- Section 70 Succession per capita
- Section 71 Succession per stirpes
- Section 72 Succession of parents
- Section 73 Succession of grandparents and other ascendants
- Section 74 Division per capita: Ascendants in the same degree
- Section 75 When ascendants are not in the same degree
- Section 77 Succession of surviving spouse
- Section 78 Collaterals other then brothers, sisters and their descendants
- Section 79 Succession of the State
- Section 80 Rights and duties of the State
- Section 82 Preferential right of habitation and use of surviving spouse
- Section 84 Restrictions on transfer by parents, or grandparents
- Section 85 Disposition of specific usufruct or lifetime annuity
- Section 86 Inofficious dispositions
- Section 88 Renunciation of right to claim reduction
- Section 89 Computation of disposable portion
- Section 90 Collation
- Section 91 Exemption from collation
- Section 92 When is a gift deemed an advancement of the legitime
- Section 93 Collation by grandchildren
- Section 94 When parents are not bound to collate
- Section 95 Ascendants duty to collate
- Section 96 Spouses of children not bound to collate
- Section 97 Expenses to be collated
- Section 98 Collation of fruits and profits of gifted things
- Section 99 How collation is done
- Section 100 Where the value of the gifted assets exceeds the value of donee’s share in the inheritance
- Section 101 On payments made
- Section 102 Family arrangement
- Section 103 Gift of community assets
- Section 104 How the shares of co-heirs are to be paid
- Section 105 When the value of the assets gifted exceeds the legitime of the donee
- Section 106 Where there are several donees
- Section 108 Assets which devolve in a preferential manner
- Section 110 Reduction of legacy or gift
- Section 111 Order of reduction
- Section 112 Partial reduction
- Section 113 Reduction of gifts inter vivos
- Section 114 Pro rata reduction
- Section 115 Reduction in respect of movables
- Section 116 Reduction of gifts of immovables
- Section 117 When immovable cannot be divided
- Section 118 When the donee may retain the gifted property
- Section 119 When immovable properties are not in possession of the donee
- Section 120 When the donee is insolvent
- Section 121 Fruits and profits in the event of reduction
- Section 122 Institution of heir
- Section 123 Liability of the heirs
- Section 124 Liability of the legatee
- Section 125 Apportionment of liabilities where inheritance is distributed by way of legacies only
- Section 126 Specific sum or thing bequeathed
- Section 127 Institution of heirs collectively
- Section 128 Brothers or sisters generally instituted as heirs
- Section 130 Right to be compensated for management of inheritance distributed by way of legacies
- Section 131 Legacy of a thing subsequently acquired
- Section 132 Legacy of a thing belonging to the heir or legatee
- Section 133 Legacy of a thing which belongs only in part to the testator or to his successors
- Section 134 Restraint on marriage
- Section 135 Condition to reciprocate
- Section 136 Deferred execution of the disposition
- Section 137 Ineffective dispositions
- Section 138 Legacy in the alternative
- Section 139 Indivisibility of the disposition
- Section 140 Supervenience of descendants
- Section 141 Effect of supervenient children predeceasing
- Section 142 Legacy of a pledged thing
- Section 143 Legacy of thing ascertainable at the place where found
- Section 144 Legacy of debt not fallen due
- Section 145 Legacy made to the creditor of testator
- Section 147 Choice of legacy of a generic thing
- Section 148 Heir’s right to select
- Section 149 Transmission of right to choose
- Section 150 Legacy for maintenance
- Section 151 Legacy of house with things existing in it
- Section 152 Legacy of usufruct
- Section 153 Legacy to minor
- Section 154 Legacy for charitable purposes
- Section 155 Mistake as to object or subject of the legacy
- Section 156 Delivery of legacy
- Section 157 Duty to carry out the will
- Section 158 Fruits and income of legacy
- Section 159 Legacy of periodic sums
- Section 160 Expenses for delivery of legacy
- Section 161 Manner and place of delivery
- Section 162 New acquisitions
- Section 163 Legacy of thing burdened with encumbrance in rem
- Section 164 Lien on immovable assets
- Section 165 Duty of co-heirs to compensate when the legacy consists of an asset of one co-heir only
- Section 166 Institution of heir or legatee subject to fulfillment of condition
- Section 167 Conditional legatee
- Section 168 Responsibility of the heir apparent
- Section 169 Reduction of encumbrance attached to legacy
- Section 170 Right of accretion
- Section 171 Exclusion of right of accretion
- Section 172 Effects of accretion
- Section 173 Renunciation of right of accretion
- Section 175 Common or direct substitution
- Section 176 Pupillary substitution
- Section 177 Quasi pupillary substitution
- Section 178 Properties which may be subject to substitution
- Section 179 Rights and duties of the substitute
- Section 180 Reciprocal substitution
- Section 181 Fide-commissary substitution
- Section 182 Lapse of fidei-commissum
- Section 183 Nullity of the substitution
- Section 184 Dispositions which are not analogous to fidei-commissum
- Section 185 Deemed fidei-commissum
- Section 186 Encumbrances in favour of paupers, etc
- Section 187 Irregular fidei-commissum
- Section 189 Disinheritance
- Section 190 Grounds for disinheritance
- Section 191 Effects of disinheritance
- Section 192 Burden of proof
- Section 193 Failure to mention ground or irrelevant ground
- Section 194 Right to maintenance of the disinherited heir
- Section 195 Period of limitation to challenge disinheritance
- Section 196 Concept of will
- Section 197 Will is a personal act
- Section 198 Will dependant upon instruction
- Section 199 Disposition in favour of unnamed relatives
- Section 200 Conditional disposition
- Section 201 Obstruction to fulfillment of condition
- Section 202 Reason contrary to law
- Section 204 Will obtained by coercion, undue influence, deceit, or fraud
- Section 205 Duty of authorities
- Section 206 When expressions are insufficient
- Section 207 Prohibition imposed by testator to challenge his will
- Section 208 Joint wills
- Section 209 Revocation of will
- Section 210 Implied revocation
- Section 211 Effect of will which has lapsed
- Section 212 Restoration of will
- Section 213 When testamentary dispositions lapse
- Section 214 Effect of ignorance of existence of children
- Section 216 Object contrary to law, morality or public policy
- Section 217 Capacity to make a will
- Section 218 Incapacity to make a will
- Section 219 Restrictions on disposition of community assets
- Section 220 Restrictions on disposing of specific assets of the inheritance
- Section 221 Relative incapacity of sick person
- Section 222 Disposition in favour of a person who has rendered domestic help or care and assistance
- Section 223 Relative incapacity-Disposition in favour of guardian or manager of assets
- Section 224 Relative incapacity-Disposition by adulterous spouse
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