LawgistThe Hindu Succession Act
25Murderer disqualified
A person who commits murder or abets the commission of murder shall be disqualified from inheriting the property of the person murdered, or any other property in furtherance of the succession to which he or she committed or abetted the commission of the murder.
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General provisions relating to succession
- 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 Omitted
- 24 Omitted
- 25 Murderer disqualified
- 26 Convert’s descendants disqualified
- 27 Succession when heir disqualifie
- 28 Disease, defect, etc., not to disqualif
