Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 47 · Decided 10 January 1996
Karumanda Gounder v. Muthuswamy Gounder and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 47 · [1996] 1 S.C.R. 344
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 545/1982
- Decided
- 10 January 1996
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, SUJATA V. MANOHAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Property--Partition between brothers-One of the brothers gifting certain properties which was subsequently sold by the donee--Other brother objecting to the transactions claiming the properties to be joinl--Also claim- C ing that his brother has become lunatic and hence not capable of alienating in view of admitted partition, the other brother had no right over the propertie,-.()n appeal held : There is no such thing as 'mild lunatic'--A person of weak intellect not lunatic--Also not declared as lunatic under the D E F G H Lunacy Acl-Hence alienation validly made-Lunacy Act. CIVIL
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