HSA Section 29: Failure of heirs
The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 · Chapter 2: Intestate succession
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¶29. Failure of heirs.―If an intestate has left no heir qualified to succeed to his or her property in accordance with the provisions of this Act, such property shall devolve on the Government; and the Government shall take the property subject to all the obligations and liabilities to which an heir would have been subject.
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Other sections in this chapter
- 5. Act not to apply to certain properties
- 6. Devolution of interest in coparcenary property
- 7. Devolution of interest in the property of a tarwad, tavazhi, kutumba, kavaru or illom
- 8. General rules of succession in the case of males
- 9. Order of succession among heirs in the Schedule
- 10. Distribution of property among heirs in class I of the Schedule
- 11. Distribution of property among heirs in class II of the Schedule
- 12. Order of succession among agnates and cognates
- 13. Computation of degrees
- 14. Property of a female Hindu to be her absolute property
- 15. General rules of succession in the case of female Hindus
- 16. Order of succession and manner of distribution among heirs of a female Hindu
- 17. Special provisions respecting persons governed by marumakkattayam and atiyasantana laws
- 18. Full blood preferred to half blood
- 19. Mode of succession of two or more heirs
- 20. Right of child in womb
- 21. Presumption in cases of simultaneous deaths
- 22. Preferential right to acquire property in certain cases
- 23. [Special provision respecting dwelling-houses.]
- 24. [Certain windows re-marrying may not inherit as windows.]
- 25. Murderer disqualified
- 26. Convert’s descendants disqualified
- 27. Succession when heir disqualified
- 28. Disease, defect, etc., not to disqualify