https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=272448 A certified copy of a registered Will, read with surrounding circumstances and available oral and documentary evidence, was treated as sufficient to prove due execution and testamentary capacity when the original Will was withheld; adverse inference was drawn against the party suppressing the best evidence. The court held that registration, the natural and equitable disposition under the Will, and the testator's rational conduct supported validity. It also found that the plaintiff failed to prove that the disputed properties were acquired out of family estate income, so no share could be claimed in them. The plaintiff's claim for the disallowed properties was rejected. en-us Tue, 01 Aug 1972 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 03 May 2018 18:22:41 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=272448 A certified copy of a registered Will, read with surrounding circumstances and available oral and documentary evidence, was treated as sufficient to prove due execution and testamentary capacity when the original Will was withheld; adverse inference was drawn against the party suppressing the best evidence. The court held that registration, the natural and equitable disposition under the Will, and the testator's rational conduct supported validity. It also found that the plaintiff failed to prove that the disputed properties were acquired out of family estate income, so no share could be claimed in them. The plaintiff's claim for the disallowed properties was rejected. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 01 Aug 1972 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=272448