Vidhara

The Indian Succession Act, 1925

§158Ademption where stock, specifically bequeathed, does not exist at testator's death

Where stock which has been specifically bequeathed does not exist at the testator's death, the legacy is adeemed. Illustration A bequeaths to B-- "my capital stock of 1,000 l. in East India Stock": "my promissory notes of the Central Government for 10,000 rupees in their 4 per cent. loan." A sells the stock and the notes. The legacies are adeemed. Ademption pro tanto where stock, specifically bequeathed, exists in part only at testator's death.

Share:WhatsAppTelegram

Source & version

Official text: India Code (official)

Official India Code text: The Indian Succession Act, 1925, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/19051/1/indian_succession_act_1925.pdf, 694,325 bytes, sha256 07fb374ab81026e8...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. This PDF brackets its footnotes with drawn rules and renders superscript markers inline ("1*50. General principles…"), both of which are handled at ingest (D-062). Section 52 is absent because this edition does not print it — its own footnote records sections 50 to 56 being substituted by Act 17 of 1939. 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.

How we verify this text →

Spotted a mistake in this text or its mapping? Report an issue with ISA §158

Was this page useful for your prep?

Feedback