Supreme Court · 1981 INSC 161 · Decided 4 September 1981
Math Sauna and ORS. v. Kedar Nath @ Uma Shankar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1981 INSC 161 · [1982] 1 S.C.R. 659
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 196/1970
- Decided
- 4 September 1981
- Bench
- R.S. PATHAK, O. CHINNAPPA REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 133
Headnote
Hindu Law-Sannyasi-Whether could acquire personal property-Property C acquired by application ofnucelus-Tests for deciding. The plaintiffs in their suit claimed that the properties in dispute belonged to the Math Sauna temple and that one of the plaintiffs Mahant Sadashiva Yati on the death of his he was entitled to all the properties recorded in the name of the deity or his predecessor. The defendant claimed that by virtue of a will executed by Mahant Shiv .. shankar Yati, the predecessor Mahant, the properties in dispute which were his personal properties devolved on him. The Civil
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