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CHAPTER VIII OF TRANSFERS OF ACTIONABLE CLAIMS

Section 135: Assignment of rights under policy of insurance against fire

The Transfer of Property Act, 1882

1 [Every assignee by endorsement or other writing, of a policy of insurance against fire, in whom the property in the subject insured shall be absolutely vested at the date of the assignment, shall have transferred and vested in him all rights of suit as if the contract contained in the policy had been made with himself.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Act 6 of 1944, s. 3, for s. 135.

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  1. 1. Under Section 135 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, an assignee of a policy of insurance against fire, by endorsement or other writing, has all rights of suit vested in him as if the contract in the policy had been made with himself, provided that:

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