Section 1: Executors may sue and be sued in certain cases for wrongs committed in lifetime of deceased.
The Legal Representatives Suits Act, 1855Central Act · Act 12 of 1855
An action may be maintained by the executors, administrators or representatives of any person deceased, for any wrong committed in the time of such person, which has occasioned pecuniary loss to his estate, for which wrong an action might have been maintained by such person, so as such wrong shall have been committed within one year before his death ***; and the damages, when recovered, shall be part of the personal estate of such person;
and further, an action may be maintained against the executors or administrators or heirs or representatives of any person deceased for any wrong committed by him in his lifetime for which he would have been subject to an action, so as such wrong shall have been committed within one year before such person's death *** and the damages to be recovered in such action shall, if recovered against an executor or administrator bound to administer according to the English law, be payable in like order of administration as the simple contract debts of such person.
STATE AMENDMENT
Karnataka
Amendment of Central Act XII of 1855.--Section 1 of the Legal Representatives’ Suits Act, 1855 (Central Act XII of 1855) shall be renumbered as section 1A and before the section 1A as so renumbered, the following section shall be inserted, namely:--
“1. Short title and extent.--This Act may be called the Legal Representatives’ Suits Act, 1855.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Karnataka”.
Executors may sue and be sued in certain cases for wrongs committed in lifetime of deceased.
Jurisdiction
Central
Status
In force as published by the source
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.
repealed, Act 9 of 1871. . The words "and provided such action shall be brought within one year after the death of such person" rep. by Act 9 of 1871, s. 2 and the First Schedule, see now the Indian Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963).
repealed, Act 36 of 1963. . The words "and so as such action shall be commenced within two years after the committing of the wrong" rep. by s. 2 and the First Schedule, ibid, see now Act 36 of 1963.
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