T.B. Ramchandra Rao vs A.N.S. Ramchandra Rao on 31 January, 1922
42. Thus certain propositions are HOW quite clear. (1) As females inherit only under express rules, no female can be a heritable bandhu (2). The common ancestor can always be taken to be a male, because a female anceetor's husband will always be the nearar & an equal ancestor of the descendants of his wife. (3) The relationship in the mother's line ceases with the fifth degree. It follows that an ancestor beyond the fifth degree from the propositus would be outside the circle. (4) the only exception which was recognized before Ramchandra v. Vinayak A.I.R. 1914 P.C. 1, appears to have been the case of the father's mother's great-grandfather, who is included on the theory of what is called a "frog's leap," by which the father's mother is excluded in the counting. (5) There must be mutuality of sapindaship, and the deceased and the claimant must he so related that they are sapindas of each other.