Beneficial Transaction

Beneficial transaction, for a transaction to be regarded as of benefit to the family it need not be of defensive character so as to be binding on the family. In each the court must be satisfied from the material before it that it was in fact such as conferred or was reasonably expected to confer benefit on the family at the time it was entered into. Where adult members are in existence the judgment is to be not that of the Manager of the family alone but that of all the adult members of the family, including the manager, Balmukand v. Kamlawati, AIR 1964 SC 1385 (1388): (1964) 6 SCR 321.