Supreme Court of India

Rohit Chauhan v. Surinder Singh & Ors.

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Reported as [2013] 7 S.C.R. 897
Decided 15 July 2013

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we aUow this appeal, set aside the judgment and decree of the lower appellate court as affirmed by the High Court and restore that of the trial court with the D liberty aforementioned.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

HIND,/:! LAW: 'Cpparcenary property' - 'Coparcener' - Held: c · Copajcenary property means the property which consists of ancestral property and a coparcener would mean a person who shares equally with others in inheritance in the estate of common ancestor - So long, on partition, an ancestral 0 ·property remains in the hand of a single person, it t.as to be treated as a separate property and such a person shall be entitled to dispose of the coparcenary property treating it to be his separate property and if a son is subsequently bom, the alienation made before the birth cannot be questioned

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Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to

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