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The Succession Act, 1925

( ACT NO. XXXIX OF 1925 )

Chapter XI

OF THE PRODUCE AND INTEREST OF LEGACIES

Interest when no time fixed for payment of general legacy
351. Where no time has been fixed for the payment of a general legacy, interest begins to run from expiration of one year from the testator's death.
 
 
Exception.-(1) Where the legacy is bequeathed in satisfaction of a debt, interest runs from the death of the testator.
 
 
(2) Where the testator was a parent or a more remote ancestor of the legatee, or has put himself in the place of a parent of the legatee, the legacy shall bear interest from the death of the testator.
 
 
(3) Where a sum is bequeathed to a minor with a direction to pay for his maintenance out of it, interest is payable from the death of the testator.

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