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1 - 10 of 18 (0.30 seconds)The Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950
Article 140 in Constitution of India [Constitution]
The Limitation Act, 1963
Section 4 in The Indian Succession Act, 1925 [Entire Act]
Section 211 in The Indian Succession Act, 1925 [Entire Act]
Section 68 in The Transfer Of Property Act, 1882 [Entire Act]
Sunil Kumar Kerr vs Sisir Kumar Kerr on 10 November, 1939
13. Under the English law, the personal representative has the power even to prefer one creditor to another among the creditors ranking in the same order of precedence. He has also the power to retain for a debt due to him from the deceased in preference to all other creditors of equal degree. The same principle is enacted in Section 307 of the Indian Succession Act, and under the Indian Law also the powers of the executor or administrator are absolute, and a purchaser enjoys the same immunity, subject of course to the restrictions and conditions laid down by Sub-section (2) of Section 307, and this principle has received judicial recognition in the case of Sunil Kumar v. Sisir Kumar, AIR 1940 PC 30. Their Lordships of the Privy Council observed as follows :