Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 157 · Decided 19 February 1997
Kattite Valappil Pathumma and ORS. v. The Taluk Land Board and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 157 · [1997] 2 S.C.R. 175
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 12058/1996
- Decided
- 19 February 1997
- Bench
- K.S. PARIPOORNAN, S.P. KURDUKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
B Kera/a Land Reforms Act, 1963-Sections 2(4), 82 Explanation 1-Declaralit having three wives and ten children-Detennination of ceiling area-Lands owned by statutory family only to be considered-Held, lands owned by other wives and children not to be included in the family. C Practice and with unless it is manifestly wrong or unfair. The appellants are the legal representatives of deceased M, a D dedarant under the Kerala Land Reforms Act, 1963. The declarant had opted his first wife and her minor children as his "statutory family" under Section 82 of the Act of
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