Section 22 of the Hindu Succession Act provides right of preemption in favour of heirs of a deceased Hindu inter se amongst the Class-I legal heirs, in case where the owner dies intestate. Perusal of ...

Section 19 of the Act provides for the maintenance of "widowed daughter-in-law" of the deceased Hindu. It simply contemplates that a Hindu wife is entitled to be maintained after ...

As regards jointness, it is not in dispute that the property has devolved on three sons by virtue of will executed by their father. The will demarcates the portion allotted to each son. There is a ...

21. Thus, the position of law is that relinquishment could be made at any stage of the litigation including the appellate stage. The claim of the plaintiff appellant for grant of benefit under ...

Part performance in the Specific Relief Act means specific performance of only a part of the contract, and the general rule is that the court does not order performance of a part alone. Section 12 is ...

Sections 29 and 30 of the POCSO Act, 2012, create a mandatory "reverse burden of proof," requiring special courts to presume the accused is guilty of sexual offences (Section 29) and possessed a ...

Perusal of the relevant provisions referred to above reveal that legislative stress is on his wife, his legitimate or illegitimate child or his father or mother. When the stress is on the word 'his', ...

Although the provisions of Section 479 of the BNSS are gender neutral, it is also necessary for this Court to say that special efforts should be made to identify women prisoners who are entitled to ...

This is why Section 27 is often described as an exception to the general principle of limitation law. In most cases, expiry of limitation only bars the legal remedy, but under Sec ...

In the aforesaid backdrop, we are of the opinion that a practice of issuing notices to the individuals/noticees, asking them to attend the inquiry without furnishing the details of the complaint ...

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22. A three judge bench of this Court in P. Lakshmi Reddy v. R. Lakshmi Reddy AIR 1957 SC 1789, while examining the necessary conditions for applicability of doctrine of ouster to the shares of ...