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Section 10: Power of estate-holder transfer or bequeath

The United Provinces Estates Act, 1920State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 7 of 1920

10. (1) Every estate-holder competent to contract shall be competent to transfer or to bequeath any portion of his estate to which the provisions of Part II have not been applied, his right or interest therein, in accordance with and only to the extent permitted by the personal law applicable to him.

(2) If such transfer or bequest is in favour of

(a) another estate-holder, or

(b) the person who would have succeeded to such estate or would have taken a vested interest therein, under the provisions of this Act, had the person so transferring or bequeathing died intestate as to his estate at the time when the transfer or bequest took-effect, or

(c) the daughter of the transfer or testator, or

(d) a son of his daughter, or

(e) a lineal male descendant in the male line,

the transferee or legatee in such case shall be an estate-holder in regard to the property to which he may become entitled under or by virtue of such transfer or bequest and shall hold the same subject to the same conditions as if he had inherited in on an intestacy, provided that in cases (c), (d) and (e) the property so transferred or bequeathed is at the time of such transfer or bequest assessed or deemed to be assessed to land revenue to the amount of not less than [seven thousand rupees a year].

Where this provision sits

ActThe United Provinces Estates Act, 1920
Section10
Marginal notePower of estate-holder transfer or bequeath
JurisdictionState of Uttar Pradesh
StatusIn 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.

  • substituted, U. P. Act I of 1928. Subs. for ten thousand rupees a year by s. 2 of U. P. Act I of 1928.

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