176 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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Succession to the property of female Marumakkattayis, etc.
109A. Rules of succession to Marumakkattayam or Aliyasantana female dying intestate. —Notwithstanding anything contained in this Part, the separate or self-acquired property of a female Hindu, who if this Code had not been passed would have been governed by the Marumakkattayam or Aliyasantana law shall, if she dies intestate in respect thereof, devolve in the order and according to the rules specified below, namely:—
(a) where the intestate has left her surviving a lineal descendant or descendants, the whole of such property shall devolve on such descendant or descendants in accordance with the provisions contained in clauses (a) to (c) of section 105D;
(b) in the absence of any lineal descendants of the intestate, the whole of the property shall devolve on the intestate’s mother or, in her absence, on her lineal descendant or descendants;
(c) where the intestate has not left her surviving any lineal descendant of herself or of her mother but has left her husband and her maternal grandmother or her lineal descendant or descendants, one-half of the property shall devolve on her grand-mother or, in her absence, on her lineal descendant or descendants;
(d) in the absence of the intestate’s maternal grand-mother and her lineal descendants, the whole of the property shall devolve on the intestate’s husband, and in the absence of the husband, the whole of the property shall devolve on her maternal grand-mother or her lineal descendant or descendants, as the case may be;
(e) where the intestate has not left her surviving any of the heirs mentioned in the forgoing clauses, the whole of the property shall devolve on her mother’s maternal grand-mother or in her absence on her lineal descendant or descendants and, in the absence of any one descendant, on a remoter female ascendant in the female line or, in her absence, on her lineal descendant or descendants, the nearer ascendant and her descendants excluding the more remote ascendants and her descendants ;
(f) the distribution of the intestate’s property or any share thereof to which two or more lineal descendants of her mother or other ascendant are entitled under the foregoing clauses shall be made in accordance will the rules specified in clauses (a) to (e) of section 105D, as if the mother or other ascendant had died intestate in respect of such property or shall leaving her surviving the descendants aforesaid.