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Section 63: Execution of unprivileged wills.

The Indian Succession Act, 1925Central Act · Act 39 of 1925

Every testator, not being a soldier employed in an expedition or engaged in actual warfare, [or an airman so employed or engaged,] or a mariner at sea, shall execute his will according to the following rules:--

(a) The testator shall sign or shall affix his mark to the will, or it shall be signed by some other person in his presence and by his direction.

(b) The signature or mark of the testator, or the signature of the person signing for him, shall be so placed that it shall appear that it was intended thereby to give effect to the writing as a will.

(c) The will shall be attested by two or more witnesses, each of whom has seen the testator sign or affix his mark to the will or has seen some other person sign the will, in the presence and by the direction of the testator, or has received from the testator a personal acknowledgment of his signature or mark, or of the signature of such other person; and each of the witnesses shall sign the will in the presence of the testator, but it shall not be necessary that more than one witness be present at the same time, and no particular form of attestation shall be necessary.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Indian Succession Act, 1925
Section63
Marginal noteExecution of unprivileged wills.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it21

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • inserted, Act 10 of 1927. . Ins. by Act 10 of 1927, s. 2 and the First Schedule (w.e.f. 4-4-1927).

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