Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 492 · Decided 17 July 2014
Renikuntla Rajamma (D) BY LRS. v. K. Sarwanamma
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 492 · [2014] 8 S.C.R. 890
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4195/2008
- Decided
- 17 July 2014
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, V. GOPALA GOWDA, C. NAGAPPAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Transfer of Property Act Section 122, 123
Headnote
. Transfer of Property Act, 1882 - ss. 122 and 123 - C Interpretation of - Gift reserving life interest for the donor - Validity - Whether retention of possession of the gifted property for enjoyment by the donor during her life time and the right to receive the rents of the property in any way of the gift - Held: A conjoint reading of ss. 122 and D 123 of the Act makes it abundantly clear that "transfer. of possession" of the property covered by the registered instrument of the gift duly signed by the donor and attested as required is not a sine qua non for the making of a
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