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The Hindu Law of Inheritance (Amendment) Act, 1929

( ACT NO. II OF 1929 )

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3. Nothing in this Act shall-
 
 
(a) affect any special family or local custom having the force of law, or
 
 
(b) vest in a son's daughter, daughter's daughter or sister an estate larger than, or different in kind from, that possessed by a female in property inherited by her from a male according to the school of Mitakshara law by which the male was governed, or
 
 
(c) enable more than one person to succeed by inheritance to the estate of a deceased Hindu male which by a customary or other rule of succession descends to a single heir.

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