...his own admission should be taken to have become sanyasi and his civil death should be presumed and in this view of the matter defendant-appellant would be entitled to one-half share in the house in...became perfect sanyasi and so his civil death has not been established.4. Aggrieved by the judgment and decree passed by the trial court as well as the lower appellate court, the...admitted to have become sanyasi and so legally he ceased to hold any interest in the property because on becoming sanyasi his civil death will be presumed in law. The learned counsel in support of his argument refe...

...include civil death. Civil death is in some ways different from natural death and the learned counsel has not been able to show any authority for his proposition that civil death will com...affairs of this material world and therefore he cannot at that time be said to have properly become a sanyasi or to have undergone civil death.We consider therefore that in the present case it is not proved t...doctrine of civil death were held to come under section 50, but on the general point of law we consider that section 50 is not intended to apply to the case of civil death and accordingly we dismiss these appeals w...

.... 9 of the Act. The stand taken by the Revenue before the Appellate Controller was that when the deceased became a sanyasi, the same operated as civil death, that as a result thereof, the relationship...when he takes up to sanyasa becomes civilly dead cannot be disputed. After such a civil death, the individual's relationship with his family comes to an end and there is complete severance from his secular life.16. T.... But the question is whether that well-established principle will apply to a Hindu who has become an ascetic by undergoing a civil death. Once the law assumes a civil death on one becoming a sanyasi, he...

...present petitioner.3. The impleadment application was filed by Narendra Kumar Roongta on the ground that his father Madan Lal Roongta has become a Sanyasi, hence his civil death and...impleaded in the release proceedings on the ground that his father has met civil death by taking ‘Sanyas’ and that was the basis on which the Court and allowed him to contest the release application...

...Motilal thereafter became a sanyasi on 13th July 1910 and therefore his civil death took place on that date, and they became entitled to the property under the will, that Motilal had no right left in...ceremonies by which he becomes a sanyasi, he renounces all interest in worldly affairs, and the Court must conclude that his civil death has taken place, and that his property vests in his heirs from...death and not from the date of his becoming a sanyasi, and that during his lifetime he will retain control of his property. As the learned Judge of the lower appellate Court has pointed out, the very...

....3. The objector had further challenged the title of the vendor Dal Chand and asserted that he had renounced the world and became a Sanyasi resulting in his civil death long before the execution of the sale d...the ground that he had renounced the world had became a Sanyasi and had lost his rights on account of his civil death.7. I have carefully considered the arguments put forward by the learned counsel for the pa...been mentioned therein that where a perr son enters into a religious order renouncing all worldly affairs, his action is tantamount to civil death and it excludes him altogether from inheritance and...

...having become a sanyasi, and thus died a civil death. This was about 35 years ago. His wife Mt. Gobindi took possession of the property and she died some 19 or 20 years previously to the institution of...the suit. Sarbu's brother Makundi died in the lifetime of Gobindi. On the death of Gobindi Mt. Basanti the widow of Makundi took possession of the property in suit. In 1922 Mt. Basanti executed a...registered will professing to give the property after her death to one Niadar. Subsequently she changed her mind and sold the property to Damodar Das on 6th January 1929. She died shortly after this sale...

...held:—“The assumption of the name of a Sanyasi could not change the status and bring about a civil death of a person unless there was initiation by a Guru into the order of Sanyasis...observed:—“A mere expression of a desire to become a Sanyasi either orally of in writing is not enough to make out a case of renunciation of the world, so as to bring about a civil...death in the eye of law, but the formalities necessary for acquiring the status of a Sanyasi have to be undergone. There must be materials to show that he intended to cease all connections with his...

....The legal position is well settled. Once a person becomes a Sanyasi, he suffers civil death. Section 6 of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 states that a Sanyasi cannot be a legal guardian...inheritance. Entrance to a religious order, is tantamount to civil death so as to cause a complete severance of his connection with his relations, as well as with his property. Neither he nor his natural...mendicant, or indeed that he is such, does not of itself disentitle him to succeed to property. Nor does any Sudra come under this disqualification, unless by usage. This civil death does not prevent...

.... ‘Mt. Jiji Bai v. Zabu’, 30 Nag LR 18.4. Adoption of a holy order and a complete renunciation of all worldly ties will operate as civil death. In order to bring a person under the head ‘...Nagorao was invalid.3. The defendant-appellant based the plea of invalidity on the averment that the plaintiff Nagorao had become a Mahanubhava ‘sanyasi’ about three years prior to his...adoption and that a ‘sanyasi’ cannot be adopted either under the Hindu law or under a long established custom. The respondent is from a Maratha cultivator family, resident of Berar, and he is a ‘shudra...

...F., and whether notwithstanding the fact of his becoming a Sanyasi, which in law is deemed to be a civil death, he executed a will on 1st Meher, 1356 F. by which he gave the suit house to the 3rd...of which is essential for the entry of a person into the fourth ashram, the Sanyasa Ashram, which when entered is irrevocable, causing his civil death. It may also be stated that the initiation by a Guru is an element in the change ...civil death and is he entitled to execute a will? What is the effect of the will in relation to the suit house?9. It may be stated that the admissibility of Ex. 8 dated 17th Sherewar...

...also. In the case of a sanyasi entrance to a religious order generally operates as a civil death. The man who becomes an ascetic severs his connection with the members of his natural family and being...inheriting upon intestacy or by virtue of a will, either in his own interest or in the interest of the monastery. In this sense the civil death with which he was affected of the equivalent or real death.... Similarly, in history of Italian Law included in the Continental Legal History Series, Vol. VIII, at page 512, para 299, it is stated thus: A sort of civil death overtook one who took...

...the judicial precedents refer to the concept of obligations. On becoming a Sanyasi, the person suffers a civil death. He must be taken to have a re-birth. A Sanyasi primarily leads a life of piety...diversity, insisting that there can be only one way of showing respect reeks of hypocrisy. One should not forget that a Sanyasi occupies a special place in our social 6/9... and cultural life. Emperors and Kings have prostrated before Sanyasis and Fakirs. In the epics whenever a Sanyasi entered the royal court, the King will step down...

..., Mahant Devanand Saraswati v. Smt. Daya Gupta in the Court of Civil Judge (Senior Division), District Haridwar saying suit property was purchased by Sanyasi Daya Gupta @ Chidganand Saraswati and...Alok Singh, J.:— Present petition is preferred assailing the judgment and order dated 28.07.2014, passed by the Civil Judge (Senior Division), Haridwar in O.S No. 26 of 2014, whereby...after her death, property was being managed by Chinmayanad Saraswati @ Gita Devi; Chinmayanand Saraswati and Chidganand Saraswati were follower of Juna Akhara and as per rituals and customs of the...

...the fact that his father had become a sanyasi. Sri Krishna Singh therefore knew very well that his father having taken sanyas, he died a civil death and the question of inheriting his property or...sanyas. Thus, on his own showing Sri Krishna Singh's father had become a sadhu and in the eye of law he died a civil death and therefore Sri Krishna Singh could not put forward any title to this property. In this connection, this Co...learned Munsiff, Varanasi. The defence taken by Sri Krishna Singh was rejected. In appeal, the Civil Judge modified the decree of the Munsiff but on further appeal to the High Court, the decree of the...

...Sanyasi results in his civil death and that being so, his properties collected against the tenets of the sect, would not pass on to his heirs enumerated under the Hindu Law. Civil death is the ...taken the view that the renunciation of world by a Sanyasi amounts to his civil death.53. Under Section 7, a next of kin is entitled to the Letters of Administration. This expression..., thereafter, took religious discourses and, thereafter, was initiated as a Sanyasi after due performance of the religious ceremony. He continued to live as the Chela of the Respondent till his death on...

...with the sale proceeds of the sale of the ancestral house in question and was thus a joint family property. It is further alleged that Bhaiya Lal became a Sanyasi in 1965 (as to die a civil death) and...the requisite legal rites and ceremonies the person has become Sanyasi and thereby has died a civil death.10. The second mode laid down in paragraph 64 of the case of Krishna Singh (supra) deals with such si...referred earlier. Rather his own subsequent act and conduct would show that he remained attached to the world and the worldly possession and continued to live a civil life and did not die a civil death...

...has become a Sanyasi will only result in his civil 27 death from the date he became a Sanyasi.... Therefore by a person becoming a Sanyasi and consequently there being a civil death of Sanyasi will only mean civil death on the particular date of a person who becomes a ...case of Avasarala Kondol Row (supra), it has at all been held that on a person becoming a Sanyasi, and therefore having a civil death, any action taken by such a person when he was not a Sanay...

...about a Civil death in the eye of law, but the formalities necessary for acquiring the status of a Sanyasi have to be undergone. There must be materials to show that he intended to cease all connections...their Lordships held that the assumption of the name of a Sanyasi could jot change the status and bring about a civil death of a person unless there was an initiation by a Guru into the order of Sanyasin...have gone through, he neither divested himself of the property nor did he intend to do so and as a matter of fact he continued to retain control over it after his alleged civil death. It was further held that under the circumstances...

...Sanyasi will only result in his civil RFA No.555/2018 Page 28 of 37 death from the date he became a Sanyasi. Therefore by a person becoming a Sanyasi and consequently there being a civil ...only mean civil death on the particular date of a person who becomes a Sanyasi. This in law doesn't mean that all acts done by a person when he was not a Sanyasi would stand invalidated and would...), it has at all been held that on a person becoming a Sanyasi, and therefore having a civil death, any action taken by such a person when he was not a Sanaysi would become invalidated. Obviously this could not be so held i...