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Issues: Whether the value of properties gifted to the wife, daughter and foster-daughter was includible in the principal value of the estate under section 10 of the Estate Duty Act, 1953.
Analysis: Section 10 applies where the donee does not immediately assume bona fide possession and enjoyment of the gifted property and does not retain it to the entire exclusion of the donor or of any benefit to the donor by contract or otherwise. The controlling test is whether the donor was in fact entirely excluded from the gifted property; if he was not so excluded, it is immaterial whether the non-exclusion was advantageous to the donee. On the facts, the donor remained in possession and management of the lands, the income from the properties was credited to his accounts, no interest was paid to the donees, and the amounts were used by him in his own business. These circumstances showed that the donees had not retained exclusive enjoyment of the properties and that the donor had not been fully excluded.
Conclusion: The properties gifted to the wife, daughter and foster-daughter were liable to be included in the principal value of the estate under section 10, and the question was answered in favour of the department.
Ratio Decidendi: A gifted property is dutiable under section 10 of the Estate Duty Act, 1953 unless the donee has immediately assumed and thereafter retained bona fide possession and enjoyment of it to the donor's entire exclusion.
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