{"id":2445,"date":"2009-07-07T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/laws\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2009-08-12T21:27:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T16:27:14","slug":"the-cutchi-memons-act-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/acts\/the-cutchi-memons-act-1938","title":{"rendered":"THE CUTCHI MEMONS ACT, 1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Act to provide that all Cutchi Memons shall be governed in matters of succession and inheritance by the Muhammadan Law.<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS it is expedient that all Cutchi Memons be governed in matters of succession and inheritance by the Muhammadan Law; It is hereby enacted as follows:-<\/p>\n<p>INDIA CODE, VOL-VIA.<\/p>\n<p>1.Short title and commencement.<\/p>\n<p>1.(1) Short title and commencement.-This Act may be called the<br \/>\nCutchi Memons Act, 1938.(2) It shall come into force on the 1st day of November, 1938.<br \/>\n2.Cutchi Memons to be governed in certain matters by Muhammadan Law.<\/p>\n<p>2. Cutchi Memons to be governed in certain matters by Muhammadan<br \/>\nLaw.-Subject to the provisions of section 3, all Cutchi Memons shall, in matters of succession and inheritance, be governed by the Muham-<br \/>\nmadan Law.<\/p>\n<p>3.Savings.<\/p>\n<p>3. Savings.-Nothing in this Act shall affect any right or liability acquired or incurred before its commencement, or any legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right or liability ; and any such legal proceeding or remedy may be continued or enforced as if this Act had not been passed.<\/p>\n<p>4. [Repeal.] Rep. by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1942 (25.of 1942), s. 2 and Sch. I.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\n1 The Act has been applied to the Sonthal Parganas district and the Chota Nagpur division subject to certain modifications, by Bihar<br \/>\nGovernment Notification, No. 1089\/A-15\/40-J. R., dated 31st August,<br \/>\n1940. It has also been applied to all the partially-excluded areas of the Province of Orissa by Orissa Government Notification No.<br \/>\n2266-111C-14\/41-Com., dated 23rd July, 1942.&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Act to provide that all Cutchi Memons shall be governed in matters of succession and inheritance by the Muhammadan Law. 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