Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 97 · Decided 21 March 1990
Manibhai v. Hemraj
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 97 · [1990] 2 S.C.R. 40
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 380/1980
- Decided
- 21 March 1990
- Bench
- K.N. SINGH, N.M. KASLIWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Hindu Law-Joint Family Property-Alienation by father to satisfy debts contracted for his personal benefit and without any legal necessity~Alienation is binding on sons if it is not tainted with immor­ ality and illegality and the debts were antecedent to the alienaton. Hindu Law-Joint Family independently. Hindu Law-Doctrine of Pious obligation-Liability of sons to discharge father's debt-Doctrine postulates father's debt must be Vyavaharik. "Antecedent debt"-What is. 'B', who received some agricultural lands and a house in the partition of his ancestral properties, and
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