M.N. Das Laws Relating to Partition

The utility-oriented outstanding work relating to laws of partition with all its ramifications is now stepping into its seventh edition. Almost all the critical issues like women's rights, maintenance, rights of married daughters and daughters-in-law, adoptions, wills, debutters, powers and duties of Mahant of a Mutt and Mutawalli of a Wakf etc. are dealt with at length with the help of current decisions of the apex court and those of different High Courts. An elaborate and analytical discussion is made on such topics as methods of partition, pre-emption, limitation, injunctions, res judicata, arbitration, etc. which makes wealthy contribution to this field of jurisprudence.

Key Features:

• Rights of married daughter
• Amendments relating to adoption
• Property in the name of junior member
• Reunion of HUF after separation
• Maintenance of Muslim women after iddat
• Sale of stridhana property by husband
• Probate of a foreign will

Table of Contents:

1. Joint Property
2. Joint Liabilities
3. Karta in a Joint Family
4. HUF Partition and Income Tax Act, 1961
5. Women's Rights
6. Adoption
7. Maintenance
8. Spouses and Cohabitees
9. Impartible Estate
10. Ownership Flats and Apartments
11. Co-owners and their Claim of Adverse Possession
12. Raising Structures on Joint Property
13. Family Agreement and Partition
14. Elementary Principles of Partition
15. Pre-emption
16. Decree in Suit for Partition
17. Methods of Partition
18. Injunction
19. Receiver
20. Res Judicata
21. Limitation
22. Contempt of Court's
23. Disposition of Joint Property by Will
24. Debutter
25. Wakfs
26. Construction of Instruments
27. Arbitration