https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=281310 A purported family settlement will not bind a reversioner unless the transferee derives title through a genuine compromise of competing claims; where the transferee has no antecedent title and claims only through the widow, the settlement cannot defeat reversionary rights. A widow's 1859 arrangement was treated as a division of the estate, not a surrender, and limitation against the reversioner did not begin in the absence of proof of prior dispossession or hostile possession. The widow's alienations also failed for want of legal necessity, with concurrent findings below left undisturbed. The consolidated appeals accordingly failed and the decree for the respondent was upheld. en-us Tue, 21 Apr 1942 00:00:00 +0630 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:11:06 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=281310 A purported family settlement will not bind a reversioner unless the transferee derives title through a genuine compromise of competing claims; where the transferee has no antecedent title and claims only through the widow, the settlement cannot defeat reversionary rights. A widow's 1859 arrangement was treated as a division of the estate, not a surrender, and limitation against the reversioner did not begin in the absence of proof of prior dispossession or hostile possession. The widow's alienations also failed for want of legal necessity, with concurrent findings below left undisturbed. The consolidated appeals accordingly failed and the decree for the respondent was upheld. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 21 Apr 1942 00:00:00 +0630 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=281310