afforded to the applicant;
(ii) While applying the affinity test, which focuses on the ethnological connections with the scheduled tribe, a cautious approach ... were somewhat immune to the cultural development happening around them, the affinity test could serve as a determinative factor. However, with the migrations, modernisation
afforded to the applicant;
(ii) While applying the affinity test, which focuses on the ethnological connections with the scheduled tribe, a cautious approach ... were somewhat immune to the cultural development happening around them, the affinity test could serve as a determinative factor. However, with the migrations, modernisation
Km. Seema Azad vs State Of U.P. on 22 April, 2013
Bench: Rajiv Sharma
what is the test of determining nearness among sapindas as conferring priority of right to inherit? Is it affinity, that is, the possession ... presentation of funeral oblations? The latter is no doubt the test according to the Dayabhaga School, but the Mitakshara has nowhere adopted it. The rule
Vijay Singh vs State Of Uttar Pradesh on 26 May, 2017
Author: Ajai Lamba
Bench
decisive test. Even if there is no visual resemblance between the two marks, that does not matter when there is a close affinity of sound
thought that, if instead of applying the rule of affinity in regulating the order of succession, he had applied the principles of religious benefit ... additional proof that the doctrine of religious benefit and the doctrine of affinity are not really different from each other; but they are inseparably connected
Professor Rajkumar Sarvadhikari, applying the principle of religious benefit as a test of mutuality treats the father's sister's grandson as within ... Golap Chandra Sircar excludes the principle of religious benefit and taking affinity by sapindaship according to the Mitakshara Law as necessarily mutual includes him within
entitled to the benefits of this section if they answer the legal test.
7. The word "family" must, in the very nature ... wider sense all those who are nearly connected by blood or affinity.
The italics are mine. Blood, therefore, is not the only
Aman Chaudhary vs State Of U.P. on 19 August, 2025
Author: Rajeev Misra
Bench
