Suit 3 Rd item of property is natham land Assigned to father - it is treated as self-acquired properties, therefore not available for partition,

Citation

AIROnline 2022 MAD 933

Madras High Court

D. BHARATHA CHAKRAVARTHY , J.

Appeal Suit - 494 of 2016 D/- 26 - 10 - 2022

Murugaiyan v. Sundarammal

Hindu Law - Suit for partition - For four items of suit property - Trial court passed preliminary

decree granting 1/2 share of suit items 1 and 4 to both plaintiff and defendant - Plea of plaintiff

that Trial Court ought to have decreed suit in respect of all four suit properties - Plaintiff failed

to prove that suit properties are ancestral properties - Settlement deeds of items 2 and 3 have

been duly proved by defendants - Finding by Trial Court that suit items 2 and 3 are self-acquired

properties, therefore not available for partition, proper - Therefore decree granting 1/2 share,

proper.

 (Para 13)