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Kuttaseri Eriat Govindan Nair and ors. Vs. Kuttaseri Eriat Sankaran Na ...

Court : Chennai

Subject : Family

Reported in : 2Ind.Cas.183

I deplore as fruitful in mischief, but by which 1 am bound.' It is said in Mr. Moore's Malabar Law that this decision was confirmed by the High Court, but that no judgment was written or reasons recorded.10. … an indissoluble unit and took no thought of the individuals composing that unit observes in his book on Malabar Law A practice, however, appears to have sprang up of allowing' self-acquired property to pass to the nearer heir

Kali Matathil Veeran Kutty's son Avaru Vs. Asi Bai and Ors.

Court : Chennai

Subject : PropertyTenancy

Reported in : (1931)61MLJ462

not let to agricultural tenants.' In this connection the observations of Sundara Aiyar, J., in his book on Malabar Law edited by Mr. Sitarama Rao (see page 296) as regards the scope of the two Acts may be … passed, ever gave effect to the customary law with strictness, for we find in a well-known book of Malabar Law entitled 'A Manual of Malabar Law as administered by the Courts' by Cuddalore Ramachandra Aiyar, Subordinate Judge of

Avaru Vs. Asi Bai and ors.

Court : Chennai

Subject : Property

Reported in : AIR1932Mad8

not let to agricultural tenants.11. In this connexion the observations of Sundara Ayyar, J., in his book on Malabar Law edited by Mr. Sitarama Rao (see p. 297) as regards the' scope of the two Acts may be … passed ever gave effect to the Customary law with strictness, for we find in a well-known book of Malabar law entitled 'A Manual of Malabar law as administered by the Courts'by Cuddalore Ramachandra Ayyar, Subordinate Judge of South

Machingal Potte Veetu Alias Thakke Veettil Seetha Neithyar and ors. Vs ...

Court : Chennai

Subject : Family

Reported in : AIR1939Mad564; (1939)2MLJ697

status as members in their natural family. On this point the main argument is that adoption under the Malabar Law amongst the Nairs, to which community the parties belong, is in the krittrima form, and as according to … natural family, Valia Parvathi and her descendants are still members of the Pottai Veettu tarwad. According to Moore's Malabar Law there are said to be three kinds of adoption in use in Malabar: (1) adoption by ten hands.

thekkumkattil Krishnan Nair and ors. Vs. thekkumkattil Damodaran Nair ...

Court : Chennai

Subject : Family

Reported in : 17Ind.Cas.769; (1913)24MLJ240

rights to property of this character. Mr. K.R. Krishna Menon than whom there is no better authority on Malabar law has always maintained that a female's property would descend to her own children and not to the Tarwad … the country.12. Many reasons may be easily suggested for this difference ; according to the theory of the Malabar law property is vested only in females. (See Strange's Manual Article 401). The result was that the divisions of

T. Krishnan Nair and Eleven ors. Vs. T. Damodaran Nair and Thirteen or ...

Court : Chennai

Subject : Family

Reported in : (1915)ILR38Mad47

rights to property of this character. Mr. K.R. Krishna Menon than whom there is no better authority on Malabar law has always maintained that a female's property would descend to her own children and not to the tarwad … of the country.14. Many reasons may be easily suggested for this difference; according to the theory of the Malabar law the property is vested only in females. (See Strange's Manual, Article 401). The result was that the divisions

Kaithal Kuttiyali Vs. Ummamma Amma and ors.

Court : Chennai

Subject : Property

Reported in : AIR1921Mad80; (1921)ILR44Mad509

v. Kannan Nambiar Second Appeal No. 1423 of 1901 (unreported). There, Benson, J., who had much experience of Malabar law, and Bhashyam Ayyangar, J., held that having regard to the well-known tenures and customs of Malabar, the intention … proposition of law, while the very authorities to which he has referred us as set out in Moore's Malabar Law show that the stanomdar is entitled to grant a lease for a term exceeding his own lifetime so

Achuthan Nair Vs. Chinnamu Amma and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Subject : FamilyProperty

Acts : Malabar Law

Reported in : AIR1966SC411; [1966]1SCR454; MANU/SC/0361/1965

On appeal, a Division Bench of the Madras High Court, having regard to the relevant presumptions under the Malabar law, held that the said property belonged to the tavazhi; in the result, it allowed the appeal and remanded … are not the managers of the tavazhi properties; even if they are, there is no presumption under the Malabar Law that the properties acquired in their names are tavazhi properties; and that even if there is such a

Sukapuram Sabhayogam Vs. State of Kerala and ors.

Court : Kerala

Subject : Constitution

Acts : Tenancy Law; Kerala Agrarlan Relations Act, 1960; Malabar Land Registration Act, 1896; Constitution of India - Articles 14, 19, 31, 31A, 31A(1) and 31A(2); Madras land Registration Act, 1896; Madras Revenue Recovery Act

Reported in : AIR1963Ker101

an 'estate'. A jenmam right is the freehold interest in a property situated in Kerala. Moor in his 'Malabar Law and Custom' describes it as a hereditary proprietorship. A jcnmam interest may, therefore, be described as 'proprietary interest

Rajah Sir M. A. Muthiah Chettiar Vs. Wealth-tax Officer, Special Inves ...

Court : Chennai

Subject : Direct Taxation

Reported in : [1964]53ITR504(Mad)

the Marumakkathayam law itself was based only upon ancient usage and custom. Sundara Aiyar, in his book on Malabar Law, observe that in Malabar more than anywhere else it is still an age of usage and not of … the learned judge referred to a passage in Mr. Logans Malabar Manual. Sundara Aiyar in his book on Malabar Law at page 231 states :'The Mohamadans of North Malabar also mostly follow the Marumak-kathayam low of inheritance and