The Hindu Succession Act, 1956
§1 — Short title and extent
(1) This Act may be called the Hindu Succession Act, 1956. (2) It extends to the whole of India ***.
Source & version
Official text: India Code (official) ↗
Official India Code text: The Hindu Succession Act, 1956, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1713/1/AAA1956suc___30.pdf, 257,077 bytes, sha256 8ee27226825b9021...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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