Section 214Chapter XXIII

Proof of representative title a condition precedent to recovery through the Courts of debts from debtors of deceased persons

OF GIFTS IN CONTEMPLATION OF DEATH

(1)

No Court shall-

(a)

pass a decree against a debtor of a deceased person for payment of his debt to a person claiming on succession to be entitled to the effects of the deceased person or to any part thereof, or

(b)

proceed, upon an application of a person claiming to be so entitled, to execute against such a debtor a decree or order for the payment of his debt, except on the production, by the person so claiming, of-

(i)

a probate or letters of administration evidencing the grant to him of administration to the estate of the deceased, or (ii) a certificate granted under section 31 or section 32 of the Administrator General's Act, 1913, and having the debt mentioned therein, or (iii) a succession certificate granted under Part X and having the debt specified therein, or 13[* * *]

(2)

The word "debt" in sub-section

(1)

includes any debt except rent, revenue or profits payable in respect of land used for agricultural purposes.