Joint Hindu Family Properties Presumed Where Ancestral Nucleus Exists – Concurrent Findings Upheld

Dorairaj Vs Doraisamy (Dead) Through Lrs & Ors. (Supreme Court of India) The Supreme Court of India dismissed long-pending civil appeals arising from a partition suit involving 79 items of agricultural properties, affirming concurrent findings of the Trial Court, First Appellate Court and the Madras High Court that most of the suit properties constituted joint Hindu family properties. The Court reiterated settled law that mere existence of a joint family is not enough, but once ancestral properties yielding income are established and acquisitions are made during the subsistence of the join...