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Supreme Court and High Courts judgments on Self-acquired property

20 judgments, latest first, from 2018 to 2025. A judgment is listed here when its headnote names this subject: the Supreme Court Reports' own headnote (naming the subject), or an AI-written headnote that was reviewed and approved. A mention in the full text alone does not count, and criminal cases are not listed under this subject.

Angadi Chandranna vs Shankar & Ors.
SC · 22 April 2025
[2025] 4 S.C.R. 1417 : 2025 INSC 532
The main dispute in the lis is, whether the suit property was ancestral or self-acquired property of defendant no.1.
Chandro And Anr vs Amit Kumar And Anr
P&H HC · 27 August 2024
The appellants, mother and son of the judgment debtor Dinesh Kumar, filed third party objections in execution proceedings challenging the attachment of property claimed to be ancestral. The property had descended from Fu…
Smt Saroja Devi vs Sri N Krishna Murthy
Karnataka HC · 22 August 2024
This is a Regular First Appeal filed by the unsuccessful plaintiff No. 2 (appellant), challenging the judgment and decree passed by the III Additional City Civil Judge, Bangalore City in O.S. No. 1563/1996, which dismiss…
Prasanta Kumar Sahoo & Ors. vs Charulata Sahu & Ors.
SC · 29 March 2023
[2023] 5 S.C.R. 20 : 2023 INSC 319
PRASANTA KUMAR SAHOO & ORS. v. CHARULATA SAHU & ORS. (Civil Appeal No. 2913-2915 of 2018) MARCH 29, 2023 [A. S. BOPANNA AND J. B. PARDIWALA, JJ.] Hindu Succession Act, 1956– Amendment in law governing the parties – Parti…
Elumalai @ Venkatesan & Anr. vs M. Kamala and Ors. & etc.
SC · 25 January 2023
[2023] 1 S.C.R. 261 : 2023 INSC 83
Release Deed – Effect of – Spes Successionis – Estoppel – Warding off, of estoppel by heirs of the person whose conduct created the estoppel – Impropriety of – Dispute regarding selfacquired property of ‘S’ – ‘S’ had mar…
Somakka (Dead) by Lrs. vs K.P. Basavaraj (Dead) by Lrs.
SC · 13 June 2022
[2022] 17 S.C.R. 668 : 2022 INSC 642
SOMAKKA (DEAD) BY LRS. v. K.P. BASAVARAJ (DEAD) BY LRS. (Civil Appeal No (S). 1117 of 2009) JUNE 13, 2022 [S. ABDUL NAZEER AND VIKRAM NATH, JJ.] Code of Civil Procedure 1908 – s.96 – Or.XLI r.31 – Appellant and responden…
B. R. Patil vs Tulsa Y. Sawkar & Ors.
SC · 9 February 2022
[2022] 13 S.C.R. 569 : 2022 INSC 165
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 -Order II r.2,3 - Joinder of causes of action – Order II r. 3 does not compel a plaintiff to join two or more causes of action in a single suit - The failure to join together all claims aris…
Jogi Ram vs Suresh Kumar & Ors.
SC · 1 February 2022
[2022] 9 S.C.R. 766 : 2022 INSC 131
Hindu Succession Act, 1956 – s.14(2) vis-à-vis 14(1) – Objective and applicability of – Held: Objective of sub-sec.(2) is that there cannot be a fetter in a owner of a property to give a limited estate if he so chooses t…
Arunachala Gounder (Dead) by Lrs. vs Ponnusamy and Ors.
SC · 20 January 2022
[2022] 1 S.C.R. 269 : 2022 INSC 74
Hindu Succession Act, 1956: Self acquired property of male Hindu dying intestate – Right of daughter of such male Hindu to inherit – Held: If a property of a male Hindu dying intestate is a self acquired property or obta…
V. Kalyanaswamy (D) by Lrs. & Anr. vs L. Bakthavatsalam (D) by Lrs. & Ors.
SC · 17 July 2020
[2020] 9 S.C.R. 619 : 2020 INSC 455
Hindu Succession Act, 1956 – Death before enactment of – Effect of – One ‘RVN’ had two sons (‘LN’ and ‘RN’) and five daughters – ‘LN’ had four sons – ‘RN’ was married to ‘RK’, they did not have any issue – ‘RN’ passed aw…
M. Arumugam vs Ammaniammal and Ors.
SC · 8 January 2020
[2020] 1 S.C.R. 41 : 2020 INSC 14
Hindu Succession Act, 1956 – ss.4(b), 6, 8, 19 & 30 – Joint family – Role of Karta vis-a-vis minor members – Defendant nos.1 & 2 formed coparcenary, with their father, which owned the suit property – Father died intestat…
Govindbhai Chhotabhai Patel & Ors. vs Patel Ramanbhai Mathurbhai
SC · 23 September 2019
[2019] 13 S.C.R. 152 : 2019 INSC 1070
Hindu Law – Self-acquired property bequeathed by the father in favour of the son – Nature of such property in the hands of the son – Appellants-plaintiffs are sons of the Donor (since deceased) – During his life time, th…
Sunil Vasudeva & Ors. vs Sundar Gupta & Ors.
SC · 2 July 2019
[2019] 8 S.C.R. 1190 : 2019 INSC 716
SUNIL VASUDEVA & ORS. v. SUNDAR GUPTA & ORS. (Civil Appeal No. 5140 of 2019) JULY 02, 2019 [A. M. KHANWILKAR AND AJAY RASTOGI, JJ.] Income Tax Act, 1961 – s.293 – One late ‘KL’ and his son ‘PG’ constituted HUF which owne…
Arshnoor Singh vs Harpal Kaur & Ors.
SC · 1 July 2019
[2019] 8 S.C.R. 999 : 2019 INSC 708
Family Law – Succession under Mitakshara Law – Appellant is the great-grandson of one ‘LS’, who was the owner of large tracts of agricultural land – ‘LS’ passed away in 1951, and his entire property was inherited by his…
Mangathai Ammal (Died) through Lrs and Others vs Rajeswari & Others
SC · 9 May 2019
[2019] 7 S.C.R. 619 : 2019 INSC 664
Benami transactions: Transactions, whether benami or not – Determination of – Held: Payment of part sale consideration cannot be the sole criteria to hold the sale/transaction as benami – Intention of the person who cont…
S. Subramanian vs S. Ramasamy etc. etc.
SC · 1 May 2019
[2019] 8 S.C.R. 250 : 2019 INSC 606
Suit: Suits for injunction and for partition of suit property – Claiming that the suit property was joint family property – Suit defended by appellant on the ground that the suit property was self acquired property and n…
Smt. P. Leelavathi (D) by Lrs vs V. Shankarnarayana Rao (D) by Lrs
SC · 9 April 2019
[2019] 6 S.C.R. 910 : 2019 INSC 495
Suit – Partition – Appellant-original plaintiff claimed 1/4th share in all the scheduled properties of her late father – Plaintiff alleged that defendants-her brothers refused to give her 1/4th share – Plaintiff filed su…
Basanti Devi (Dead) by Lrs & Ors. vs Rati Ram & Ors.
SC · 8 May 2018
[2018] 6 S.C.R. 1029 : 2018 INSC 459
Hindu Succession Act, 1956 – ss.14(1) and (2) – Applicability of – Suit filed by predecessors-in-interest of respondents against ‘SL’, predecessor-in-interest of appellants – Compromise decree was passed wherein ‘SL’ was…
Mangammal @ Thulasi and Anr. vs T.B. Raju and Ors.
SC · 19 April 2018
[2018] 6 S.C.R. 776 : 2018 INSC 372
MANGAMMAL @ THULASI AND ANR. v. T.B. RAJU AND ORS. (Civil Appeal No. 1933 of 2009) APRIL 19, 2018 [R. K. AGRAWAL AND ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE, JJ.] Hindu Succession Act, 1956 – s.29-A – Right of daughter in coparcenary proper…
Sita Ram Bhama vs Ramvatar Bhama
SC · 23 March 2018
[2018] 10 S.C.R. 503 : 2018 INSC 260
Registration Act, 1908 – ss.17 and 49 – Admissibility of document in evidence – Appellant-plaintiff and respondentdefendant after death of their father, recorded a memorandum of settlement as decided by their father rega…

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