Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 829 · Decided 6 August 1996
Laxmappa and ORS. v. SMT. Balawa Kom Tirkappa Chavdi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 829 · [1996] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 308
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 383/1987
- Decided
- 6 August 1996
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, K. VENKATASWAMI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 14(1); Succession Act Section 14(1)
Headnote
Hindu Succession Act, 1956: S.14(1) and (2)-Hindll widow adopting her brother as her son with C the consent of her fathe1-Father and adoptive son jointly making a gift of some a!jlicuftural land in her favour in 1950 with the condition that Oil her death prope1ty would devolve on dono1'~After the owner of tlze &ifted land-Held, High Cowt was 1ight in holding thats. 14(1) of the Act was attracted to tlze gift and the widow, had become a complete owner of the D prope1ties gifted. Hindu Law : Father's obligation to maintain his destitute widowed dauglzte1'-lield, a moral obligation even
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