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1 - 8 of 8 (0.29 seconds)Section 372 in The Indian Succession Act, 1925 [Entire Act]
The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Section 8 in The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 [Entire Act]
The Court-fees Act, 1870
Shri Banarsi Dass vs Mrs. Teeku Dutta And Anr on 27 April, 2005
9. I find the Supreme Court in Banarsi Dass Vs.
Teeku Dutta MANU/SC/0333/2005 : (2005) 4
SCC 449 to have held (i) that the main object of a
Succession Certificate is to facilitate collection of
debts on succession and afford protection to
parties paying debts to representatives of the
deceased person; (ii) all that the Succession
Certificate purports to do is to facilitate the
collection of debts, to regulate the administration
of succession and to protect persons who deal
with the alleged representatives of the deceased
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persons; (iii) such a Certificate does not give any
general power of administration on the estate of
the deceased; (iv) the grant of a certificate does
not establish title of the grantee as the heir of the
deceased; (v) a Succession Certificate is intended
to protect the debtors, which means that where a
debtor of a deceased person either voluntarily
pays his debt to a person holding a certificate or is
compelled by a decree of the Court to pay it to the
person, he is lawfully discharged; and, (vi) the
grant of a certificate does not establish a title of
the grantee as the heir of the deceased, but only
furnishes him with authority to collect his debts
and allows the debtors to make payments to him
without incurring any risk."
Article 12 in Constitution of India [Constitution]
Madhvi Amma Bhawani Amma And Ors vs Kunjikutty Pillai Meenakshi Pillai And ... on 27 April, 2000
In the case of Madhvi Amma Bhawani Amma and others
Vs. Kunjikutty Pillai Meenakshi Pillai and others. [AIR 2000
Supreme Court 2301=2000 AIR SCW 2432] it was held as under :-
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