Under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, two people are agnates if they are related by blood or adoption…
Section 3(1)(a) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 defines agnates by a relationship of blood or adoption traced wholly through males. Under section 3(1)(c), a relationship…
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Under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, two people are agnates if they are related by blood or adoption in which way?
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Section 3(1)(a) of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 defines agnates by a relationship of blood or adoption traced wholly through males.
Under section 3(1)(c), a relationship that is not wholly through males is cognatic. The definition concerns the links through which the relationship is traced.
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Option A
A link through a female in the line makes the relationship cognatic under section 3(1)(c).
Option B
Section 3(1)(a) defines agnates as relatives by blood or adoption wholly through males.
Option C
A line through females does not meet the wholly-through-males requirement.
Option D
Section 3(1)(a) classifies the line of relationship. It does not require all the relatives through whom it is traced to be alive.
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