https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=292446 A self-acquired house can become Hindu joint family property if the coparcener, on the evidence, abandoned exclusive ownership and treated it as part of the common stock before partition in interest. The Court treated this as a question of fact and assessed subsequent conduct and documents as corroborative material under Section 8 of the Evidence Act. It rejected the proposition that a registered instrument is invariably required to impress self-acquired property with joint family character. On the facts, the house was found to have been thrown into the common stock, and the argument that registration was indispensable failed. en-us Fri, 11 Sep 1925 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:40:03 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=292446 A self-acquired house can become Hindu joint family property if the coparcener, on the evidence, abandoned exclusive ownership and treated it as part of the common stock before partition in interest. The Court treated this as a question of fact and assessed subsequent conduct and documents as corroborative material under Section 8 of the Evidence Act. It rejected the proposition that a registered instrument is invariably required to impress self-acquired property with joint family character. On the facts, the house was found to have been thrown into the common stock, and the argument that registration was indispensable failed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 11 Sep 1925 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=292446