Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 555 · Decided 21 August 2014
V. Sreerama Chandra Avadhani (D) BY LRS. v. Shaik Abdul Rahim and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 555 · [2014] 13 S.C.R. 1096
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2364/2005
- Decided
- 21 August 2014
- Bench
- J.S. KHEHAR, R.F. NARIMAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
c Mohammedan Law - Gifts (hiba) - Conditional gifts - Nature and effect of- Held: Under Mohammad an Law, a gift has to be unconditional - Therefore, conditions expressed · in a gift, are to be treated as void -A conditional gift is valid, but the conditions are void - 0 permissible, ifthegiftismerelyofausufruct-Therefore, the gift of a usufruct can validly impose a limit, in point of time (as an interest, restricted to the-life of the donee) - In a gift · which contempiates the transfer of the corpus, there is no question of such transfer being
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