History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

APPENDIX A.

THE PARSI CHATTELS REAL ACT.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT, Fort WiniiaM, THE 15TH May 1887.

THE following Act passed by the Right Honourable the Governor-General of India in Council, on the 15th May 1837, is hereby promulgated for general information :—

ACT No. IX of 1837.

I. It is hereby enacted, that from the Ist day of June 1837, all immovable property situate within the jurisdiction of any of the courts established by His Majesty’s Charter shall, as far as regards the transmission of such property on the death and intestacy of any Parsi having a beneficial interest in the same, or by the last will of any such Parsi, be taken to be and to have been of the nature of chattels real and not of freehold.

Il. Provided always, that in any suit at law or in equity which shall be brought for the recovery of such immovable property as is aforesaid, no advantage shall be taken of any defect of title arising out of the transmission of such property upon the death and intestacy of any Parsi having a beneficial interest in the same or by the last will of any such Parsi if such transmission took place before the said 1st day of June 1837, and if such transmission were either according to the rules which regulate the transmission of freehold property or else took place with the acquiescence of all persons to whom any interest in that property would, according to the rules which regulate the transmission of chattels real, have accrued upon the death of such

Parsi. W. H. Macnacuren,

Secretary to the Government of India.