Supreme Court of India

Chinnathayi Alias Veeralakshmi v. Kulasekara Pandiya Naicker and Another

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Reported as [1952] 1 S.C.R. 241
Bench Saiyid Fazl Au, Meher Chand Mahajan and Chandrasekhara Aiyar JJ.
Decided 14 December 1951

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We hold that there exist no satisfactorv grounds for holding that the arrangement made in 1890 evidences a partition amongst the members of the joint family or proves an intention on the part of the junior members of the family to renounce their expectanc.y of succession by survivorship on failure of male lineal descendants in the second branch of the family.

Judgment, page 25

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