The Hindu Succession Act, 1956
If two or more heirs succeed together to the property of an intestate, they shall take the property,― (a) save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, per capita and not per stirpes; and (b) as tenants-in-common and not as joint tenants.
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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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