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The Succession Act, 1925

( ACT NO. XXXIX OF 1925 )

Proof of representative title a condition precedent to recovery through the Courts of debts from debtors of deceased persons
214. (1) No Court shall-
 
 
(a) pass a decree against a debtor of a deceased person for payment of his debt to a person claiming on succession to be entitled to the effects of the deceased person or to any part thereof, or
 
 
(b) proceed, upon an application of a person claiming to be so entitled, to execute against such a debtor a decree or order for the payment of his debt,
 
 
except on the production, by the person so claiming, of-
 
 
(i) a probate or letters of administration evidencing the grant to him of administration to the estate of the deceased, or
 
 
(ii) a certificate granted under section 31 or section 32 of the Administrator General's Act, 1913, and having the debt mentioned therein, or
 
 
(iii) a succession certificate granted under Part X and having the debt specified therein, or
 
 
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(2) The word "debt" in sub-section (1) includes any debt except rent, revenue or profits payable in respect of land used for agricultural purposes.

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