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HINDU LAW
- Joint Family Property - Presumption - Burden of proof - Joint Family Nucleus - Initial burden always on Plaintiff to prove his case by proper pleading and adequate evidence - failure to adduce any documentary evidence to prove self-acquisition of property - legal presumption that every Hindu family is joint in food, worship and estate - In absence of any proof of division presumption continues - presumption continues to operate in family until division of status - Burden lies upon member of family who after admitting existence of jointness in Family properties asserts his claim that some properties out of entire lot of Ancestral properties are his self-acquired property. Adiveppa -VS- Bhimappa (SC) - 2017 (6) CTC 556 - Abhay Manohar Sapre, J.