Administrator-General, entitled to letters of administration in preference to creditors, certain legatees or friends.
- The Administrator-General of the State shall be deemed ... creditor; or (b) a legatee, other than a universal legatee or a residuary legatee or the representative of a residuary legatee; or (c) a friend
General entitled to letters of administration in preference to creditor, non-universal legatee or friends.–
The Administrator General [Ibid.][* * *] shall be deemed ... creditor; or (b) a legatee other than an universal legatee; or (c) a friend of the deceased
provisions in S. 232 as enabling only
a residuary or an universal legatee to prove the Will and
claim Letters of Administration. S. 234 specifically ... residuary legatee. The residuary
legatee has been described under Section 102 of the Act. It reads
as under:-
"102. Constitution of residuary legatee
counsel appearing for the appellant argues that the
plaintiffs/appellants are universal legatees of the estate of Late Smt.
Priyamvada Debi Birla (PDB) and since ... estate, which confers locus standi on the plaintiffs, as
universal legatees of the estate, to initiate the present legal action.
9. As per the observation
Party is the sole legatee or, that is to say the universal legatee, or the deceased. Though, at one point, it was faintly argued that ... this case, on the footing that the Opposite Party is the universal legatee under the Will of the deceased plaintiff. It has been held
Oudh 7) it was decided that the universal legatee of a person is his legal representative within the meaning of Section 2(11) , Civil ... legatee and the legatee of a part only of the estate, because he who takes the whole cannot but be its representative. A universal legatee
such. The disposition in such clear terms constitutes the respondent an universal legatee to whom the testator gave the whole of his properties which ... doubt ' therefore, that the respondent was constituted the sole/universal legatee under the will, in whom the properties of the testator vested, both
that of a creditor or a legatee, other than an universal legatee or residual legatee or the representative of a residual legatee; or a friend ... more
persons is known as universal legacy and the recipients of such a legacy as universal legatees. In the rejoinder affidavit filed to the counter
appellant has, therefore, not proved his right to administration as universal legatee. In appeal it is contended before us that as a trustee ... might have been entitled to it. But when he claims as universal legatee, and suppresses the secret instructions given by the testator without stating what
grandsons, plaintiffs Nos. 2, 3 and 4 his heirs and universal legatees. The will was registered. In 1914 plaintiff No. 1 filed a suit against ... plaintiffs Nos. 2, 3 and 4, who are the heirs and universal legatees under the will of Bhupatrai, filed this suit.
6. The trial Court
