Subject to the Provisions of this Act, and to all the conditions under which the estate was conferred by the British Government, every Taluqdar and Grantee, and every heir and legatee of a Taluqdar and Grantee, of sound mind and not a minor, shall be competent to transfer the whole or any portion of his estate, or of his right and interest therein, during his life-time, by sale, exchange, mortgage, lease or gift, and to bequeath by his will to any person the whole or any portion of such estate, right and interest.
A married woman may make a bequest under this Act of any property which she could alienate by her own act during her life.
Persons who are deaf or dumb or blind are not thereby incapacitated for making a transfer or bequest under this Act, if they are able to know what they do by it.
One who is ordinarily insane may make a transfer or bequest under this Act during an interval in which he is of sound mind.
No person can make a transfer or bequest under this Act while he is in such a state of mind, whether from drunkenness, or from illness, or from any other cause, that he does not know what he is doing.
A transfer and a will, or any part of a will, the making of which has been caused by fraud or coercion or by such importunity as takes away the free agency of the transferor or testator, is void.