https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=273278 Property validly declared a settled estate under the Oudh Settled Estates Act, 1900 is subject to the Act's testamentary limits, so a later will can operate only within the restricted power conferred by the statute. Under the Mitakshara law applied to the Benares school, a widow of a predeceased son was treated as a stranger rather than an heir for succession to the Raja, and a bequest creating a second life estate in her favour was ineffective to the extent it excluded the heir-at-law. Cash savings retained by a Maharani out of income from a life estate were treated as her separate property and devolved as stridhan, not as estate assets. en-us Thu, 18 Nov 1926 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:29:58 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=273278 Property validly declared a settled estate under the Oudh Settled Estates Act, 1900 is subject to the Act's testamentary limits, so a later will can operate only within the restricted power conferred by the statute. Under the Mitakshara law applied to the Benares school, a widow of a predeceased son was treated as a stranger rather than an heir for succession to the Raja, and a bequest creating a second life estate in her favour was ineffective to the extent it excluded the heir-at-law. Cash savings retained by a Maharani out of income from a life estate were treated as her separate property and devolved as stridhan, not as estate assets. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 18 Nov 1926 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=273278