Sayed Kasam vs Jorawar Singh on 6 April, 1922
7. The defining of shares may be expressed by an agreement between them containing a declaration of their shares in the estate. Even an agreement between the members of a joint family, whereby they appoint arbitrators for dividing the joint family property among them, amounts to a severance of the joint status of the family from the date of the agreement : Syed Kasam v. Jorawar Singh (1922) L.R. 49 I.A. 358 : s.c. 25 Bom.