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CHAPTER VII OF GIFTS

Section 129: Saving of donations mortis causa and Muhammadan law

The Transfer of Property Act, 1882

Nothing in this Chapter related to gifts of moveable property made in contemplation of death, or shall be deemed to affect any rule of Muhammadan law 1***.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.The words and figures “or, save as provided by s. 123, any rule of Hindu or Buddhist law” omitted by Act 20 of 1929, s. 61.

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  1. 1. Section 129 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 saves from the provisions of Chapter VII (gifts):

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