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168                   THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                  (Part XII.—Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits)

              (b) all rights, liabilities and obligations of the Government of the
      Dominion of India and of the Government of each Governor's Province,
      whether arising out of any contract or otherwise, shall be the rights,
      liabilities and obligations respectively of the Government of India and
      the Government of each corresponding State,
subject to any adjustment made or to be made by reason of the creation before
the commencement of this Constitution of the Dominion of Pakistan or of the
Provinces of West Bengal, East Bengal, West Punjab and East Punjab.
      295. Succession to property, assets, rights, liabilities and obligations
in other cases.—(1) As from the commencement of this Constitution—
             (a) all property and assets which immediately before such
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      commencement were vested in any Indian State corresponding to a State
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      specified in Part B of the First Schedule shall vest in the Union, if the
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      purposes for which such property and assets were held immediately
      before such commencement will thereafter be purposes of the Union
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      relating to any of the matters enumerated in the Union List, and
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              (b) all rights, liabilities and obligations of the Government of any
      Indian State corresponding to a State specified in Part B of the First
      Schedule, whether arising out of any contract or otherwise, shall be the
      rights, liabilities and obligations of the Government of India, if the purposes
      for which such rights were acquired or liabilities or obligations were incurred
      before such commencement will thereafter be purposes of the Government
      of India relating to any of the matters enumerated in the Union List,
subject to any agreement entered into in that behalf by the Government of India
with the Government of that State.
       (2) Subject as aforesaid, the Government of each State specified in Part B
of the First Schedule shall, as from the commencement of this Constitution, be the
successor of the Government of the corresponding Indian State as regards all
property and assets and all rights, liabilities and obligations, whether arising out
of any contract or otherwise, other than those referred to in clause (1).
        296. Property accruing by escheat or lapse or as bona vacantia.—
Subject as hereinafter provided, any property in the territory of India which, if
this Constitution had not come into operation, would have accrued to His Majesty
or, as the case may be, to the Ruler of an Indian State by escheat or lapse, or as
bona vacantia for want of a rightful owner, shall, if it is property situate in a
State, vest in such State, and shall, in any other case, vest in the Union:

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