The Hindu Succession Act, 1956
A child who was in the womb at the time of the death of an intestate and who is subsequently born alive shall have the same right to inherit to the intestate as if he or she had been born before the death of the intestate, and the inheritance shall be deemed to vest in such a case with effect from the date of the death of the intestate.
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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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