https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310021 A person claiming under a registered will may be impleaded as a legal representative under Order 22 Rule 4 CPC if he has sufficient interest to represent the deceased's estate in pending proceedings. Section 2(11) CPC is not confined to a legal heir, and the enquiry at substitution stage is limited to representation of the estate, not determination of succession or heirship. Where the applicant had a registered will in his favour and no rival claimant with a better immediate right to represent the estate had appeared, substitution was treated as maintainable and rejection of substitution with abatement could not stand. en-us Mon, 04 Jan 1993 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 03 Oct 2023 17:37:19 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310021 A person claiming under a registered will may be impleaded as a legal representative under Order 22 Rule 4 CPC if he has sufficient interest to represent the deceased's estate in pending proceedings. Section 2(11) CPC is not confined to a legal heir, and the enquiry at substitution stage is limited to representation of the estate, not determination of succession or heirship. Where the applicant had a registered will in his favour and no rival claimant with a better immediate right to represent the estate had appeared, substitution was treated as maintainable and rejection of substitution with abatement could not stand. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 04 Jan 1993 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=310021