https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=6939 Section 8 of the Hindu Succession Act operates as a self-contained code for succession to a male Hindu's separate property, and it supersedes the pre-existing Mitakshara rule that property inherited from a grandfather became ancestral in the hands of the son, except where section 6 applies to Mitakshara coparcenary property. On the stated facts, property inherited by Ram Rakshpal from Durga Prasad, who had already separated in an earlier partition, was not treated as coparcenary property merely because Ram Rakshpal continued as karta of his own Hindu undivided family; the inherited share was therefore his individual property. en-us Wed, 09 Nov 1966 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:58:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=6939 Section 8 of the Hindu Succession Act operates as a self-contained code for succession to a male Hindu's separate property, and it supersedes the pre-existing Mitakshara rule that property inherited from a grandfather became ancestral in the hands of the son, except where section 6 applies to Mitakshara coparcenary property. On the stated facts, property inherited by Ram Rakshpal from Durga Prasad, who had already separated in an earlier partition, was not treated as coparcenary property merely because Ram Rakshpal continued as karta of his own Hindu undivided family; the inherited share was therefore his individual property. Case-Laws Income Tax Wed, 09 Nov 1966 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=6939