https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287371 A prior private partition of joint family property was found proved through cumulative documentary and circumstantial evidence, including sale deeds, rent receipts and other contemporaneous transactions showing long separate enjoyment by different branches. Recitals referring to amicable partition and metes-and-bounds division were treated as weighty admissions, while the oral evidence of continuing jointness was found unreliable. On that basis, properties in Schedules 3 and 4 were held not liable to partition: Schedule 3 was shown to be in the defendants' long exclusive possession, and Schedule 4 had been acquired after the partition. The related claim for mesne profits also failed, and the suit for partition was rejected in full. en-us Mon, 04 Feb 1980 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 11:05:33 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287371 A prior private partition of joint family property was found proved through cumulative documentary and circumstantial evidence, including sale deeds, rent receipts and other contemporaneous transactions showing long separate enjoyment by different branches. Recitals referring to amicable partition and metes-and-bounds division were treated as weighty admissions, while the oral evidence of continuing jointness was found unreliable. On that basis, properties in Schedules 3 and 4 were held not liable to partition: Schedule 3 was shown to be in the defendants' long exclusive possession, and Schedule 4 had been acquired after the partition. The related claim for mesne profits also failed, and the suit for partition was rejected in full. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 04 Feb 1980 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=287371