Jammu and Kashmir Hindu Succession Act, 1956
Jammu and Kashmir Hindu Succession Act, 1956
Civil195629 sections
This Act establishes clear rules for how property is inherited by families in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. It applies primarily to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains, though it also covers others who fall under Hindu legal customs. The legislation is designed to ensure fairness by guaranteeing that daughters have equal inheritance rights alongside sons, unlike under older traditional laws. By providing these standards, the Act helps prevent legal disputes over estates and protects agricultural land from being split into too many small, unmanageable plots.
- 1. Short title.
- 2. Application of Act.
- 3. Definitions and interpretation.
- 4. Over-riding effect of Act.
- 5. Devolution of interest in coparcenary property.
- 6. General rules of succession in the case of males.
- 7. Order of succession among heirs in the Schedule.
- 8. Distribution of property among heirs in Class I of the Schedule.
- 9. Distribution of property among heirs in Class II of the Schedule.
- 10. Order of succession among agnates and cognates.
- 11. Computation of degrees.
- 12. Property of a female Hindu to be her absolute property.
- 13. General rules of succession in the case of female Hindus.
- 14. Order of succession and manner of distribution among heirs of a female Hindu.
- 15. Full blood preferred to half blood.
- 16. Mode of succession of two or more heirs.
- 17. Right of child in womb.
- 18. Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths.
- 19. Preferential right to acquire property in certain cases.
- 20. Special provision respecting dwelling houses.
- 21. Certain widows remarrying may not inherit as widows.
- 22. Murderer disqualified.
- 23. Converts' descendants disqualified.
- 24. Succession when heir disqualified.
- 25. Disease, defect, etc., not to disqualify.
- 26. Failure of heirs.
- 27. Testamentary succession.
- 28. Repeal.
- Schedule. THE SCHEDULE
PDF: pending for this language.