Supreme Court · 1977 INSC 102 · Decided 31 March 1977
Lakshmi Chand Khajuria & ORS. v. SMT. Ishroo Devi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1977 INSC 102 · [1977] 3 S.C.R. 400
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2330/1968
- Decided
- 31 March 1977
- Bench
- A.C. GUPTA, P.S. KAILASAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 133; Hindu Succession Act; Succession Act
Headnote
Te1tan1e1!tary Will disposing of the ancestral property to a far relation, whether valid under s. 27 of the J'!mmu & Kashmir Hindu Succe.rsion Act, 19~6-Scope o~ s. 27 and explanation thereto-Whether income of a hereditary priest, !'l hereditary pr~perty-Mitakshara law as applicable to Jammu to receive a share equal to that of a son and to hold and en;oy that share .separately even from her husband. On the. stren~h of a Will dated 25th May 1959, executed in her favour by one Purohxt Mani Ram, the respondent Smt. Ishroo Devi filed a suit for recovery of the schedule property in
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