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83. In Soundararajan v. Arunachalam Chetty (1915) I.L.R. 39 M. 136 : 29 M.L.J. 793 (F.B.) it was held that the illegitimate son of a Sudra by a dancing woman, who was by profession a prostitute before she came into his keeping but who was kept by him in continuous and exclusive concubinage thereafter, is entitled to get his appropriate share in the joint family property after his father's death, provided the connection .between his father and mother was not incestuous or adulterous.

84. The competition was not between the legitimate son and the illegitimate son.