Under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, when is one person a cognate of another?
Section 3(1)(c) defines cognates through blood or adoption where the line of relationship is not wholly through males. Section 3(1)(a) uses the wholly male line to…
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Under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, when is one person a cognate of another?
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Section 3(1)(c) defines cognates through blood or adoption where the line of relationship is not wholly through males.
Section 3(1)(a) uses the wholly male line to distinguish agnates.
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Option A
A blood or adoptive link wholly through males makes the relation agnatic under section 3(1)(a).
Option B
Section 3(1)(c) identifies a cognate by a blood or adoptive link that is not wholly through males.
Option C
Marriage alone does not supply the blood or adoptive link required by the definition.
Option D
This wording includes the wholly male links that are classified as agnatic.
Option E
The blood or adoptive relationship that is not wholly through males supplies the statutory definition.
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