Mst. Rukhmabai vs Lala Laxminarayan And Others on 17 November, 1959
Rukhmabai v. Lal Laxminarayan & Ors. (1960) 2 SCR
253: AIR 1960 SC 335, the burden lies upon the person who
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asserts that a particular property is joint family property to
establish that fact. But if he proves that there was sufficient joint
family nucleous from and out of which the said property could
have been acquired, the burden shifts to the member of the
family setting up the claim that it is his personal property to
establish that the said property has been acquired without any
assistance from the joint family property.