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Showing posts with label S 14 of hindu succession ACt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label S 14 of hindu succession ACt. Show all posts
Thursday, 5 February 2026

Important Judgments and articles on rights of woman

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  1) When Justice Takes Pause: The Shifting Landscape of Bail for Women, the Pregnant, and the Infirm Under India’s Criminal Laws Part 2: Pr...
Saturday, 4 October 2025

From Possession to Precedent: Unraveling Section 14 of the Hindu Succession Act

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  The landscape of Hindu women’s inheritance rights has witnessed seismic judicial shifts in the past two years. Section 14 of the Hindu Suc...

The Crucible of Confusion: Section 14 of the Hindu Succession Act and the Supreme Court's Clarion Call for Legal Certainty

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  The Current Legal Landscape: Where Courts Stand Today As of October 2024 , the legal position regarding Section 14 of the Hindu Successi...

Supreme Court Refers To Larger Bench Conflicting Opinions On Female Hindu's Rights Under S.14 of Hindu Succession Act

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  We have noticed that while following Tulsamma, the subsequent decisions in Thota Sesharathamma, Masilamani Mudaliar and Shakuntala Devi (s...
Friday, 3 October 2025

Bombay HC: Unmarried daughters, widows or destitute daughters have absolute right of residence in the immovable property of joint family as per S 14 of Hindu Succession Act

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 Thus, the legal principles applicable to the facts of the present case, on the daughter's rights under the Hindu law in the father'...
Monday, 19 February 2024

Under which circumstances life interest in property given to wife will not convert into ownership rights as per S 14 of Hindu Succession Act?

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In our view the relevant aspect of the aforesaid conclusion is para 4 which opines where Sub-section (2) of Section 14 of the said Act would...

Whether widow will acquire ownership right over property in her possession recognizing her pre-existing right of maintenance?

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 It may be noted that in the Will executed by Harinarayanji in favour of Daulalji, there was no mention of the suit property. What was state...
Wednesday, 30 August 2023

Whether hindu woman can claim right in immovable property U/S 14(1) of Hindu Succession Act if she was not in possession of that property?

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  Section 14 subSection  (1)  had no application in this case. The essential ingredient of  Section 14 sub Section (1) is possession over th...
Wednesday, 1 May 2019

Notes on Hindu succession Act 1956 as amended in the year 2005

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S 3.Definitions:- a) Agnate : One person is said to agnate of another if two are related by blood or adoption wholly through male. c...
Sunday, 20 May 2018

When right in property acquired by Hindu female by compromise decree will not enlarge into full right?

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It is an admitted position that on 23.12.1932 a compromise decree was passed in a suit filed by predecessors of the defendants against t...
Tuesday, 26 December 2017

Leading Supreme Court judgment on distinction between S 14(1) and S 14(2) of Hindu succession Act relating to property rights of woman

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  In the case of V. Tulasamma(supra), the learned Judge, Justice S. Murtaza Fazal Ali, speaking for the Bench, succinctly and in a lucid...
Friday, 22 July 2016

Whether Hindu widow will become absolute owner of property from which she has right to receive maintenance?

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 After hearing the learned counsel on either side, the following question is formulated for decision in the second appeal :       ...
Friday, 14 February 2014

Whether Right of wife to claim maintenance from her husband is lost if husband renounce Hinduism?

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 Reliance placed by Mr. Goel on  V. Tulasamma and others vs. Sehsa Reddy (Dead)  by L.Rrs. : [1977] 3 SCR 261 is wholly misplaced. The ...