Indian Succession Act : No ademption by subsequent provision for legatee. Indian Bare Acts :

Indian Succession Act,1925

Act No : 39

Section : No ademption by subsequent provision for legatee.

179. No ademption by subsequent provision for legatee.-No bequestshall be wholly or partially adeemed by a subsequent provision made bysettlement or otherwise for the legatee. Illustrations (i) A bequeaths 20,000 rupees to his son B. He afterwards givesto B the sum of 20,000 rupees. The legacy is not thereby adeemed. (ii) A bequeaths 40,000 rupees to B, his orphan niece whom he hadbrought up from her infancy. Afterwards, on the occasion of B'smarriage, A settles upon her the sum of 30,000 rupees. The legacy isnot thereby diminished.