{"id":247856,"date":"1877-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1877-02-11T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/umabai-widow-of-shankarrav-vs-bhavu-padmanji-on-12-february-1877"},"modified":"2017-06-10T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T08:16:47","slug":"umabai-widow-of-shankarrav-vs-bhavu-padmanji-on-12-february-1877","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/umabai-widow-of-shankarrav-vs-bhavu-padmanji-on-12-february-1877","title":{"rendered":"Umabai Widow Of Shankarrav vs Bhavu Padmanji on 12 February, 1877"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Bombay High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Umabai Widow Of Shankarrav vs Bhavu Padmanji on 12 February, 1877<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1877) ILR 1 Bom 557<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: M Westropp<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: M Westropp, N Haridas<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1\">JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Michael Westropp, C.J.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">1. This Court does not agree in the opinion of the District Judge that Hindus, though not born blind, are, if they become incurably blind, thereby rendered incapable of inheritance. See Murariji Gokaldas v. Parvatibai (I.L.R., 1 Bom., 177) and Anunta v. Ramabai (supra, p. 554), in which latter case the incurable diseases, which incapacitate for inheritance, are mentioned. But, inasmuch as he has found as facts, that Padmanji and Bhavu were separate in estate, and that the house in dispute was purchased for Bhavu as his absolute property with funds supplied for the purpose by Kashi, his maternal grand-mother, the Court affirms the District Judge&#8217;s decree with costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bombay High Court Umabai Widow Of Shankarrav vs Bhavu Padmanji on 12 February, 1877 Equivalent citations: (1877) ILR 1 Bom 557 Author: M Westropp Bench: M Westropp, N Haridas JUDGMENT Michael Westropp, C.J. 1. This Court does not agree in the opinion of the District Judge that Hindus, though not born blind, are, if they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bombay-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Umabai Widow Of Shankarrav vs Bhavu Padmanji on 12 February, 1877 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/umabai-widow-of-shankarrav-vs-bhavu-padmanji-on-12-february-1877\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Umabai Widow Of Shankarrav vs Bhavu Padmanji on 12 February, 1877 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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