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26. Acceptance or renunciation by one of the spouses only. — A married person is not
entitled to accept or renounce an inheritance without written consent of the other spouse.
The consent may be made good by an order of the Court.
27. Acceptance of inheritance left to a person under disability. — The inheritance
left to a minor or a person under other disability may be accepted by those who represent
him.
28. Acceptance or renunciation of inheritance left to a deaf and dumb person.— A deaf
and dumb person, who is not under guardianship and who knows to write, may accept or
renounce the inheritance, either personally or through a constituted attorney.
29. Form of acceptance.— (1)The acceptance of inheritance is express or tacit.
(2) The acceptance is express when in any document the heir accepts the title or quality
of heir. The acceptance is tacit, when the heir does some act from which the intention to
accept has to be necessarily inferred or the act done is of such a nature that he could not
have done it otherwise than as an heir.
(3) However, acts done solely to preserve or to provisionally manage or safeguard the
assets of the inheritance do not imply it’s acceptance.
30. Gratuitous transfer of inheritance or share therein.— A gratuitous transfer of
inheritance or share therein in favour of all the co-heirs to whom it would have belonged in
the absence of the transfer, shall be deemed to be renunciation of the inheritance.
31. Consequences of Court decision declaring a person to be an heir.— A person who
has been declared to be an heir by an order or decree of a Court that has become final or
a person against whom a decision has been passed expressly in that quality shall be
deemed to be an heir both in relation to the creditors or the legatees who had been parties
to the case as also in relation to others.
32. Absence of consensus among heirs to accept or renounce inheritance.— Where there
is no consensus amongst the heirs as to whether the inheritance should be renounced, some
may accept it and others may renounce it.
33. Transmission of right to accept.— Where the heir dies without accepting or
renouncing the inheritance, the right to accept or renounce shall pass on to his heirs.
34. Indivisibility of renunciation.— (1) The heir who has accepted the inheritance of the
estate leaver may renounce the inheritance which the estate leaver had not accepted at the
time of his death.
(2) Renunciation of the inheritance of the estate leaver shall mean renunciation of all
inheritances which would have otherwise devolved on the estate leaver.