The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
For the purposes of section 50 and section 52, property in the hands of a son or other descendant which is liable under Hindu law for the payment of the debt of a deceased ancestor, in respect of which a decree has been passed, shall be deemed to be property of the deceased which has come to the hands of the son or other descendant as his legal representative.
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Official India Code text: The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/2191/1/A190805.pdf, 3,275,360 bytes, sha256 8849fc32…) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-29. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded; Schedule I (Orders/Rules) not included in the section list; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.
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