Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 118 · Decided 21 April 1987
Jagannathan Pillai v. Kunjithapadam Pillai & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 118 · [1987] 2 S.C.R. 1070
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1196/1973
- Decided
- 21 April 1987
- Bench
- M.P. THAKKAR, B.C. RAY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 14; Succession Act Section 14
Headnote
PILLAI v. KUNJITHAPADAM PILLAI & ORS. APRIL 21, 1987. [M.P. THAKKAR AND B.C. RAY, JJ.) 'Hindu Succession Act, 1956: S. 14( 1)-Hindu widow regainspos­ session of property subsequent to commencement of Act-Nature of her y right or interest-Whether full or limited owner. C · . ' thereof D · and not as a limited owner. The Expl~nation to the sub-section induded property acquired by a female Hindu by purchase within the expression 'property.' The Hindu widow, In the instant case, who bad acquired a limited estate from her husband by reason of his death was not In
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