Oral Evidence and Long Separate Possession Can Establish Family Oral Partition: Jharkhand High Court

The Jharkhand High Court has dismissed a long-running dispute concerning partition of family land, holding that there was no sufficient ground to interfere with the concurrent findings of the authorities below. The Court found that the claim of an earlier oral family partition was supported by evidence, admissions and the fact that family members had been separately possessing and cultivating their respective portions of the property for several decades. Case…