Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 275 · Decided 12 September 1990
Bara Singh v. Kashmira Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 275 · [1990] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 417
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1934/1972
- Decided
- 12 September 1990
- Bench
- T.K. THOMMEN, K.N. SAIKIA, N.M. KASLIWAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Hindu Law-Ancestral Immovable property-Alienation a/­ Custom amongst lats in Central District of Punjab-Alienation as a bona fide act of good management-Valid. Respondent Nos. 4 to 6 sold their 3/Sth share of the ancestral land to the appellant for Rs.14,000, as the vendors left their village to 3 filed a declaratory snit in the court of Snb-J udge, Ludhiana seeking a declaration that the sale of the suit land would not affect their reversionary rights after the death of respondents 4 to 6. They pleaded that the land was ancestral and according to the custom governing the parties, it
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