Supreme Court · 1954 INSC 36 · Decided 1 April 1954
Hem Singh and Another v. Harnam Singh and ANOTHER.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1954 INSC 36 · [1955] 1 S.C.R. 44
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 124/1951
- Decided
- 1 April 1954
- Bench
- BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, VIVIAN BOSE, GHULAM HASAN, T.L. VENKATARAMA AIYYAR (4-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
44 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [1955] . HEM SINGH A,ND J\.NOTHER v .. HARNAM SINGH AND ANOTHER. [B. K. MuKHERJEA, V1"1AN BosE, GHULAM HASAN and VENKATARAMA AYYAR JJ.) Custom-Adoption-Gill lats of village Gillantuali District Gurdaspur (Punjab )~Adoption of .a collateral of 8th degree-Vali· ' The ~nswer to question 9 in Customary Law 0£ the Gurdas~ · ptir District that "the adOption· of near collateral only" should be recognised is not mandatory but directory. · · · Under the Customary Law in the Punjab, adoption is secular
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