Restriction as to donees and legatees

Section 13 of the Oudh Estates' Act, 1869 deals with restriction as to donees and legatees. No Taluqdár or Grantee, and no heir or legatee of a Taluqdár or Grantee, shall have power to give or bequeath his estate, or any portion thereof, or any interest therein, to any person not being either- (1.) —a person who, under the provision of this Act, or under the ordinary law to which person of The Act was enacted on 12 Jan 1869.

No Taluqdár or Grantee, and no heir or legatee of a Taluqdár or Grantee, shall have power to give or bequeath his estate, or any portion thereof, or any interest therein, to any person not being either-

(1.) —a person who, under the provision of this Act, or under the ordinary law to which person of the donor's or testator's tribe and religion are subject, would have succeeded to such estate or to a portion thereof, or to an interest therein, if such Taluqdár or Grantee, heir or legatee, had died intestate, or

(2.) — a younger son of the Taluqdár or Grantee, heir or legatee, in case the name of such Taluqdár or Grantee appears in the third or the fifth of the lists mentioned in section eight, except by an instrument of gift or a will executed and attested, not less than three months before the death of the donor or testator, in manner herein provided in the case of a gift or will, as the case may be, and registered within one month from the date of its execution.

Section 13, The Oudh Estates' Act, 1869 (Act 1 of 1869).