Supreme Court · 1991 INSC 208 · Decided 23 August 1991
Thota Sesharathamma and ANR. v. Thota Manikyamma (Dead) BY LRS. and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1991 INSC 208 · [1991] 3 S.C.R. 717
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 630/1981
- Decided
- 23 August 1991
- Bench
- N.M. KASLIWAL, K. RAMASWAMY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act Section 14; Succession Act Section 14
Headnote
B Hindu Succession Act, 1956--Section 14( 1), (2)-App/ication and object of-Whether life estate of a widow under a will becomes absolute estate. Hindu Succession Act, 1956--Section 14( 1), (2)-Construction­ Whether retrospective-Acquisition of property by female Hindu- C Methods-Widow's to section 14( /). Will-Widow ·s estate-Resttictions--'-Right to maintenance-Pre­ e.u;//ng right over the property-"Res ad rem'-Obliteration of testa- D 111entar.J· succession with restrictive conditions w.e.f. 17.6.1956 by i11!1llll Siiccesswn Act, 1956--Ejjecl of
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