The Indian Succession Act 1865 (Act X of 1865) With A Commentary and the Parsee Succession Act 1865 Acts XII and XIII of 1865 and the Acts Relating to the Administrative General With Notes

In case of intestacy the widow has the same rights in respect of all the property of her husband as a widow has in England in respect of her husband's persona 1property ; and the widower has such rights in respect of his wife's property as the wife has in respect of his property where she is the survivor. [...] It is to be hoped that the Penal Code the Codes of Criminal and Civil Procedure and the Code of the Law of Succession contained in this volume will soon be followed by Codes of the law of Contracts of Torts of persons and of Evidence. [...] The domicil of origin of a posthumous child is however to be in the country in which his father was domiciled at the time of the death of the latter ; and the Act declares that no one shall acquire a domicil in India merely by esiding there in Her Majesty's Civil or Military service or in the discharge of the duties of any public office or in the exercise of any profession or calling. [...] that no bequest is valid whereby the vesting of the thing bequeathed may be delayed beyond the life-time of one or more persons living at the testator's decease and the minority of some person who shall be in existence at the expiration of that period and to whom if he complete the age of eighteen the thing bequeathed is to belong. [...] But the foregoing remarks will I trust have covinced the reader of the expediency of extending to the Hindus and Buddhists such parts of the Act as relate to Testamentary Succession including in this phrase all that relates to the execution revocation interpretation and probate of Wills and the limitation of the exercise of the testamentary power.