Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 15 · Decided 30 January 1976
Nanchand Gangaram Sheth v. Mallavpa Mahalingappa Sadalge
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 15 · [1976] 3 S.C.R. 287
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1896/1968
- Decided
- 30 January 1976
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Limitation Act Section 2, 21(3)(b), 21
Headnote
28 7 Joint Hindu family-If duty cast on menibers to inform creditors by general notice regarding disruption of joint Hindu fa111ily-Creditor-Duty to inquire about the capacity of exccutant of a document. Partnership Act, 1932-Sections 4 and 5-Difference. Limitation Act, 1908-Section 2!(3)(b) could keep an old debt alive and extend limitation against all the members of joini Hindu family. The plaintiff·appellant had business dealings with the joint family of the defendants. He had instituted a suit claiming a certain sum of money from the defendants, one of the grounds being
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