Supreme Court · 1986 INSC 22 · Decided 26 February 1986
MRS. Mary Roy ETC. ETC. v. State of Kerala & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1986 INSC 22 · [1986] 1 S.C.R. 371
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 8260/1983
- Decided
- 26 February 1986
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, R.S. PATHAK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 24; Succession Act Section 29(2), 29
Headnote
MARY ROY K'l'C. ·:rm:. Vo STATE OF KFJIALA & ORS. FEBRUARY 26, 1986 [P.N. BHAQ<'ATI, C.J. AND R.S. PATHAK, J.] Intestate Succession to the property of a member of the Indian christian Comnrunity in the territories originally forming part of· the erstwhile State of Travancore of the extension of Indian Succession Act, 1925 - Whether the Indian Succession Act, 1925 or the old Travancore Cochin Succession Act 1092 (Kollan Era) will govern the intestate succession from the date of extension - Indian -~ Succession Act, section 29(2), scope of - Legislative device ~ of
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