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Special leave petitions dismissed."
15. In 1987 (1) MLJ 149 cited supra, a Division Bench has held as follows:
"22.The other point taken by defendants is, if the origin was one of concubinage, it continues to be so for ever, and that once a concubinage always a concubinage. It depends upon facts and circumstances of each case. During the lifetime of a wife, an irresponsible husband may develop incestuous relationship with another woman, but if he continues the said relationship after the death of his wedded wife, and thereafter lives exclusively with the other woman treating her as his wife and begets children through her; and recognises them as legitimate children; lives together as a family for ever to the knowledge of the general public and if the documents executed by him confer rights upon them in any of his properties with unstinted intention of treating them as wife and children; then, as pointed out in the decisions above referred to, the evidence on record must be taken into account cumulatively to conclude on wifehood. Hence, for the reasons stated above, the first three aspects relied upon as if they are destructive factors, do not in any manner outweigh the other weighty materials on record in favour of first plaintiff, and which have been referred to above.