184 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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119. Murderer disqualified. —A person who commits murder or abets the commission of murder shall be disqualified from inheriting the property of the person murdered, or any other property in furtherance of the succession to which he or she committed or abetted the commission of the murder.
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120. Convert’s descendants disqualified. —Where, before or after the commencement of this Code, a Hindu has ceased or ceases to be one by conversion to another religion, children born to him or her after such conversion and their descendants shall be disqualified from inheriting the property of any of their Hindu relatives, unless such children or descendants arc Hindus at the time when the succession opens.
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121. Succession when heir disqualified. —If any person is disqualified from inheriting any property under this Chapter, it shall devolve as if such person had died before the intestate.
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122. Disease, defect, etc., not to disqualify. —No person shall be disqualified from succeeding to any property on the ground of any disease, defect or deformity, or save as provided in this Chapter, on any other ground whatsoever.
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Escheat
123. Failure of heirs. —If an intestate has left no heir qualified to succeed to his or her property in accordance with the provisions of this Part, such property shall go to the Government; and the Government shall take the property subject to all the obligations and liabilities to which an heir would have been subject.