Vidhi Codex

Bare Act

The Tamil Nadu Nambudri Act, 1932

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The Tamil Nadu Nambudri Act, 1932 regulates joint family property, succession, marriage, and guardianship for Nambudri Brahmans in Tamil Nadu not governed by Marumakkattayam law. It establishes that every family member, male or female, holds equal proprietary rights in joint family assets. The legislation curtails traditional patriarchal control by requiring majority consent for major property transactions and allowing individual members to demand a per capita partition of family property. Additionally, it guarantees women funding for marriage expenses, defines legal guardianship, and sets clear rules for the inheritance of separate property. This law transformed traditional social practices into codified individual rights.

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  1. 1. Short title and application
  2. 2. Definitions
  3. 3. Proprietary right of members in illom properties
  4. 4. Duty of karnavan to keep accounts
  5. 5. Validation of sales, mortgages and leases
  6. 6. Debt contracted by karnavan when binding on illom
  7. 8. Relinquishment of karnavanship
  8. 9. Right of Nambudri male to marry in his community
  9. 10. Right of major Nambudri female to have her marriage performed and recover the marriage expenses and dowry
  10. 13. Dowry to be separate property of Nambudri female
  11. 14. Guardianship of minors
  12. 16. Property as to which a person is considered to have died intestate
  13. 17. Devolution of property left by Nambudri male intestate
  14. 18. Where the intestate has left widow, children or lineal descendants
  15. 19. Rules of distribution in cases falling under section 18
  16. 20. Devolution of property where the intestate has not left any of the heirs mentioned in section 18
  17. 21. Devolution of property left by a married Nambudri female intestate
  18. 22. Devolution of property left by an unmarried Nambudri female intestate
  19. 23. Right of member to claim partition
  20. 24. Partition on change of religion
  21. 25. Character of property taken on partition

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