PLAI

Statute

Code of Muslim Personal Laws

198 provisions · showing BOOK THREE › TITLE III › CHAPTER III (2) · source

Article 131

Distant kindred includes the following: (a) The daughter's children and the children of the son's daughter and their descendants; (b) The excluded grandfather and the excluded grandmother; (c) The sister's children, the brother's daughters, the sons of the uterine brother, and their descendants; and (d) The paternal aunts, the uterine uncles and the maternal aunts and uncles.

Article 132

In default of all sharers and residuaries, the distant kindred shall inherit the entire hereditary estate, the same to be distributed among them in accordance with Articles 123 and 128.