Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Hindu Succession Act |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Act(s) Referred | Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956) |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Dismissed |
Headnote | Hindu Succession Act 1956, s. 14-Life estate created in favour of widow by Settlement Deed-When can be transformed into full ownership. Under a deed of settlement dated August 18, 1937, the respondent's father settled certain properties on the widow of his son With life interest and upon her death those properties were to revert to the Settlor or his heirs. After the widow's death, the respondent claimed the properties under the aforesaid deed of settlement. However, the appellant, brother of the widow set up title thereto under a Will executed by the widow on May 14, 1964.The question that arose for consideration in the courts below was whether the life-estate created in favour of the widow under the Settlement Deed. had been transformed into full ownership under section 14(1) of the Hindu Succession Act of 1956 and all the three courts held that the life-estate carved out under the 1937 Settlement' did not get transformed into title in favour of the widow and she did not acquire any allienable interest in the properties to bequeath in favour of her brother. |
Judge | Honble Mr. Justice Ranganath Misra |
Neutral Citation | 1986 INSC 248 |
Petitioner | Kothi Satyanarayana |
Respondent | Galla Sithayya & Others |
SCR | [1987] 1 S.C.R. 359 |
Judgement Date | 1986-11-21 |
Case Number | 2726 |
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