Supreme Court · 1991 INSC 39 · Decided 14 February 1991
Gurdip Singh and ANR. v. Amar Singh and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1991 INSC 39 · [1991] 1 S.C.R. 385
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2877/1977
- Decided
- 14 February 1991
- Bench
- K.N. SAIKIA, M.M. PUNCHHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 14(2), 14; Succession Act Section 14
Headnote
B Hindu ·Succession Act, 1956: Section 14-Enlargement of ""'( widow's estate-Property gifted in lieu of maintenance-Whether the limited estate enlarged into an absolute estate. )- The grandfather of the appellants and respondents had two wives. The first wife and her only son died father made three oral gifts of certain properties in favour of his second >---~/wife, in lieu of maintenance. Later, the grandmother gifted some of these properties to two step grandsons. The gift was challenged by the other two grandsons. The lower courts held that she had the absolute D
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