Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 370 · Decided 2 August 2000
Rajendra Kumar v. Kalyan (Dead) BY LRS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 370 · [2000] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 114
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1738/1990
- Decided
- 2 August 2000
- Bench
- S.B. MAJMUDAR, U.C. BANERJEE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 11
Headnote
Hindu law: Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 : Section 8-Adoption-By widow to her husband-Held, Shastric law is applicable in such cases. Adoption-By widow to her husband-Pre-requisites-Held, the Husband should expressly authorise his widow, under Shastric law, to adopt a child to D Section 12(c}-Adoption-Commencement of-Widow adopted to her deceased husband a child who was born after his death-Child's claim that by a legal.fiction he inherited the property of his deceased adoptive father from E the date of his death-Rejected. Property-Vesting of-Succession-Taking
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