Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 783 · Decided 1 September 2023
Revanasiddappa & ANR. v. Mallikarjun & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 783 · [2023] 14 S.C.R. 320
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2844/2011
- Decided
- 1 September 2023
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Reference answered
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Marriage Act Section 16; Hindu Succession Act Section 3(1)(j), 6, 6(3); Succession Act Section 3(1)(j), 6, 6(3)
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issue for consideration: Whether a child who is conferred with legislative legitimacy u/s. 16(1) or 16(2) is, by reason of s. 16(3), of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 entitled to the ancestral/coparcenary property of the parents or is the to the self-earned/separate property of the parents. Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 - s. 16 - Children of void and voidable marriages - Conferment of legitimacy - Inheritance rights of legitimised children: Held: While conferring legitimacy in terms of s. 16(1) on a child born
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