Supreme Court of India
Tikait Hargobind Prasad Singh v. Srimatya Phaldani Kumari
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Gkatwali tenures-Birbhum ghatwals--Succession-Widouls right to succeed in preference to nearest male agnate when family is joint -Custom-Hindu law-Regulation XXIX of 1814 . Held by the Full Court-Amongst the Birbhum ghatwals, when the holder of a ghatwali dies leaving a widow but no direct lineal descendants;, the widow succeeds in preference to the , nearest male agnate, even though the family may be a joint family. Per MAHAJAN and BosE JJ.-The Mitakshara rule that the property inherited by a person from his immediate paternal ancestors becomes ancestral in his hands, and his sons, grandsons
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