Membership Via Family Arrangement: Is It Legally Valid?

2025 0 Supreme(Bom) 1398

arrangement of the persons entitled to inherit, or to a duly nominated person. ... —On the death of a Member of a society, the society shall transfer share, right, title and interest in the property of the deceased Member in the society to a person or persons on the basis of testamentary documents or succession certificate or legal heirship certificate or document of family arrangement ... avoid granting full membership. ... Section 154B-13 provides that on the death of a member, the society shall transfer the share, rig....

2025 0 Supreme(Bom) 1376

Membership is tied entirely to the number of flats as per the sanctioned plan. No sale deed, gift deed, family arrangement, inspection report or general body resolution can enlarge the number of flats. Only a sanctioned modification by the planning authority can do so. ... The statutory provisions introduced under Chapter XIII-B of the MCS Act are special, mandatory and override any private arrangement or internal resolution. The respondents cannot rely on general principles from the three judgments to bypass a clear sta....

2024 Supreme(US)(ca1) 10

claim of persecution "on account of family membership when [the petitioner is] targeted as retaliation for the actions of another family member" would "effectively swallow[] the rule that family membership is a protected social group." ... The claimed protected ground of family membership "must [instead] be at the root of the persecution, so that family membership itself brings about the pe....

2026 Supreme(Online)(Ker) 5351

Admittedly, the respondent sought membership only based upon the Clause 8 eligibility criteria, but does not belong to the 89 Nair family mentioned in Appendix-1 or Appendix-2. ... As per Clause 8 of the scheme, the eldest member aged about 30 years or above of each Nair family within Aattukal Vattam, who is a perma- nent resident therein, is eligible for membership in the Board of Trust. ... As per the Scheme, the new members have to be elected due to the death of any of the family members out of this ....

2025 Supreme(Online)(Tel) 63992

Learned Assistant Government Pleader would further submit that the petitioner’s case cannot be considered for two reasons, firstly, the petitioner has applied for issuance of family member certificate after lapse of 27 years of demise of her husband and secondly, the family Membership certificate would ... The Tahsildar (Mandal Revenue Officer) concerned shall follow the following procedure and precautions while issuing the family membership certificate to the government employee/general public which is....

2025 Supreme(Online)(Tel) 37446

Learned Assistant Government Pleader would further submit that the petitioner’s case cannot be considered for two reasons, firstly, the petitioner has applied for issuance of family member certificate after lapse of 27 years of demise of her husband and secondly, the family Membership certificate would ... The Tahsildar (Mandal Revenue Officer) concerned shall follow the following procedure and precautions while issuing the family membership certificate to the government employee/general public which is....

2025 Supreme(Online)(Bom) 4099

The Appellant thereafter applied for permanent membership (category B/Life) for herself, and in the form, she mentioned the names of all four children under “Family Details”. ... Therefore, in light of this, merely because the Appellant listed Amoorth and Aadhyaa as her ‘son’ and ‘daughter’ under “family details”, it cannot be said that the Appellant made a false declaration. ... He argued that when the Appellant was admitted to the club as a short-term member, the letter informing her of her admission also required her to fill out a form....

2024 0 Supreme(Del) 174

Gautam's membership attained finality in the year 2004, the Petitioner who is the family member of Mr. P.C. Gautam has circumvented the compliance of the said order for now 20 years and perpetuated her possession illegally. 16. ... The said grant of membership was a unilateral act of the Society. It is evident from the record that the pendency of the writ petition (WP(C) 3623/2007) was used to orchestrate the grant of illegal membership in favour of the Petitioner. ... He states it was not a transfer of member....

This arrangement by which the lands were possessed in halves had prevailed even before the members of the family interested had been reduced to two. ... It is much to be regretted that the family arrangement was ever disturbed, and as defendant is prepared to resume it in both lands, it is to be hoped that this offer will be accepted. Unless this is done or unless some arrangement similar to that in C. R. ... do not take it that the arrangement in this case was as definite as t....

2024 0 Supreme(Del) 384

Where the courts find that the family arrangement suffers from a legal lacuna or a formal defect the rule of estoppel is pressed into service and is applied to shut out plea of the person who being a party to family arrangement seeks to unsettle a settled dispute and claims to revoke the family arrangement ... Here also, a distinction should be made between a document containing the terms and recitals of a family arrangement made under the document a....

2025 0 Supreme(Cal) 30

24. In the case at hand, Saroj Kumar Mazumder being in near relation of plaintiffs, may be considered as a member of family arrangement. But with regard to antecedent title, family arrangement deed spells out a fact that said Saroj Kumar Majumder contributed at the time of purchase of subject land and also for construction of subject building. 22. A Family arrangement is an arrangement between members of the same family intended to be used generally and reasonably for the benefit of the family by avoiding litigation or to maintain its reputation. A family arrangement when it is ent....

2020 5 Supreme 603

The grant of compensation by the MACT or by the Court in respect of accidental death of a person will not be affected by the family arrangement of the parties inasmuch as the compensation as per law has to be awarded by the Court in favour of the dependants. The internal family matter of the parties will not affect the award of compensation. 7. The argument of the learned counsel for the respondent/Insurance Company with regard to the relinquishment of her share in favour of the other claimants and consequently she is not entitled to compensation, cannot be accepted. It is in betwe....

2014 0 Supreme(Bom) 1222

After all, the family arrangement contains a principle of sharing/division. One can conceive of several devices in which the provision for division of assets with respect to the trade mark can be given effect to just as the other species of assets of the family can be actually divided by putting in place various legal arrangements. Actual sharing/division is accomplished by devising appropriate legal methods and executing appropriate legal documents for the same.

2013 0 Supreme(Mad) 3907

Any arrangement which is for the benefit of the family generally or tends to the preservation of peace and security in the family is sufficient to make it a family arrangement, valid and binding on the members. When there is a family arrangement binding on the parties, it would operate as an estoppel by preventing the parties, after having taken advantage under the arrangement, from resiling from the same, or trying to revoke it. Avoidance of family disputes is only one of the many grounds which go to validate a family arrangement. Recitals in the document incorporating the....

2012 0 Supreme(Ker) 1068

Any arrangement which is for the benefit of the family generally or tends to the preservation of peace and security in the family is sufficient to make it a family arrangement, valid and binding on the members. Recitals in the document incorporating the family arrangement are also equally binding. Avoidance of family disputes is only one of the many grounds which go to validate a family arrangement. When there is a family arrangement binding on the parties, it would operate as an estoppel by preventing the parties, after having taken advantage under the arrangement, from re....