Supreme Court of India
Jai Kaur & Others v. Sher Singh & Others.
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the High Court rightly decreed the snit in favonr of the plaintiffs in respect of the non ancestral property also, and dismiss the appeal.
Judgment, page 14
From the headnote
Hindu Law-] ats of Grewal got-Customary law of succession N on-ancestral property-Daughter, if pref erred to collaterals Doctrine of surrender-Gift to daughter by widow, if accelerates succession-Rattigan's Customary Law of the Punjab, para 23-Riwaj i-am, r882, Question 43. Under the customary law prevalent amongst the Hindu Jats of Grewal got in Ludhiana, a daughter is a preferential heir to her father in respect of his self-acquired property to his collaterals. Rattigan's Digest of Customary Law, paragraph 23, which records the correct law on the point, is not in conflict with
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