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Issues: Whether the assessee's self-acquired properties, divided among himself and his sons under the 1957 deed, had been impressed with the character of joint family property so that the transactions did not amount to a taxable gift under the Gift-tax Act.
Analysis: A member of a Hindu Mitakshara family can blend self-acquired property with joint family property by throwing it into the common hotchpotch, and such intention need not be proved only by an express formal declaration; it may be inferred from conduct and the surrounding circumstances. The facts found showed that the assessee had divided the properties in 1954, that the 1957 deed affirmed that arrangement with slight modifications, and that the recitals indicated an intention to treat the properties as joint family properties and to divide them according to Hindu law. On that basis, the properties had become joint family properties before the 1957 deed, and the division under that deed did not constitute a gift.
Conclusion: The transaction covered by the 1957 deed was not a gift and was not exigible to tax under the Gift-tax Act.
Ratio Decidendi: Self-acquired property may be converted into joint family property by blending through conduct showing an intention to abandon separate ownership and throw the property into the common hotchpotch, and a subsequent partition of such blended property does not amount to a taxable gift.
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