ISSUE:
Whether Messer’s Ghamandi Ram Gurbax Rai would fall under the exceptions mentioned in the Notification dated 19-02-1952, exempting “companies or associations or bodies of individuals whether incorporated or not”?
Can a son of a Hindu father and mother married under the Special marriage act be considered as a member of his father’s joint family?
RULE:
The ‘unobstructed heritage’ devolving on such family, with its accretions, is owned by the family, as a corporate body, and one or more branches of that family, each forming a corporate body within a larger corporate body, may possess separate ‘unobstructed heritage’ which with its accretions, may possess separate ‘unobstructed heritage’ which, with its accretions, may be exclusively owned by such branch as a corporate body.