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I Answer in one or two sentences each.
Any 6 · , any 6 of 8 12 Marks
1.What is the meaning of Escheat?[2]
Answer
Escheat is the devolution of property on the State when the owner dies leaving no heir qualified to take it.
Section 29 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 provides that if an intestate has left no heir qualified to succeed to his or her property in accordance with the provisions of this Act, such property devolves on the Government; and the Government takes the property subject to all the obligations and liabilities to which an heir would have been subject.
Two things follow from those words.
It is the last resort, not a preference. The Government takes only after Class I, Class II, the agnates and the cognates have been exhausted for a male under section 8, and after all five entries of section 15 for a female. A single qualified heir, however remote, defeats it.
The State takes the property as an heir, not as a sovereign windfall. Because it takes subject to the obligations and liabilities, a charge on the property, a debt properly binding it, or a claim for maintenance that attaches to it, remains enforceable against the Government.
The constitutional provision behind it is Article 296, under which property accruing by escheat or lapse, or as bona vacantia for want of a rightful owner, vests in the State in which it is situated.
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