International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volume 120 No. 5 2018, 3039-3050

ISSN: 1314-3395 (on-line version)
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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PROPERTY RIGHTS OF

ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN

1
Mr. Syed Afridi
1
Student, 2nd year, BBA LLB, Saveetha School of Law, Saveetha University,
Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai-77,Tamilnadu,India.
2
Mr. Arul Kannappan
2
Assistant professor, Saveetha School of Law, Saveetha University,
Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai-77,Tamilnadu,India.
1
syedafridi2016@gmail.com, 2arulkannappan.ssl@saveetha.com

ABSTRACT
The status of the ill-conceived kid as of not long ago when the laws experienced a change
because of social and political advancement and a move in the musings of the general
population. In the present post-current world, there is extensively less disgrace connected to such
terms. In dynamic countries like the United States of America society is for the most part open to
such kids and the laws forced additionally guarantee that their rights are ensured. Off late in
nations like India there has been an adjustment in the individual laws to join this advancement,
the latest being the change of Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act and a few legal choices. This
paper endeavors to track these progressions among the three noteworthy individual laws in our
nation i.e. Hindu, Muslim and Christian. As I would like to think the title of "authenticity" or
"wrongness" When joined to the status of a person in any ward mirrors the limit or absence of
limit which the law of that locale perceives on account of the individual concerned. Only a
honest to goodness when utilized as a part of connection to a kid is just an image utilized to
assign the lawful rights and commitments which spill out of being bom in wedlock, so "ill-
conceived" is utilized to indicate the confinements of limit which join to being bom without any

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father present and "legitimation" is clear of the lawful impacts occurrence to being eased of these
limitations.

keywords: Illegitimate child, Hindu marriage Act, judicial decisions, Rights, personal laws.

INTRODUCTION
All through history, there is most likely no other word related with so much disdain as
jerk or reprobate. Early precedent-based law treatment of the same is without respect to the
social ramifications of the same. They were not perceived in courteous society and were
conceded no rights. As ahead of schedule as 1235, the Earls and Barons declined to acknowledge
their ill-conceived off spring. Rights over property were an unachievable dream, when they were
not by any means allowed support. This treatment of ill-conceived kids has been uniform all
through the world, with a couple of irregularities. It isn't conceivable to overlook certain
remarkable rats who changed the course of history. In any case, despite these special cases, there
has dependably been a social disgrace related with ill-conceived youngsters. Society has
dependably alienated such youngsters, who through no blame of their own were dealt with as
inadmissible among different individuals from society. Regularly a prevailing gathering loses its
power over different gatherings in perspective of the consistently changing financial situation
and the noteworthy changes in human relationship. Law sets aside its own opportunity to
understandable such social changes through a procedure of correction. That is the reason in a
changing society law can't stand to stay static. What's more, henceforth, we watch that different
individual laws have experienced a change.
"So the ill-conceived youngster experiences handicaps. Some place these are not all that
extraordinarily articulated and in some lawful frameworks they are overwhelmingly common
because of varying conjugal establishments.In the late twentieth century, with the movement of
society, there was an attitudinal and conduct change towards the ill-conceived issue. This change
was introduced with social and political changes alongside society's change from a crude
agrarian culture to a cutting edge urbanized, mechanical country. With the adjustment in the
public eye's conduct, the laws were corrected to fuse the same. The idea of authenticity comes
from social accord, in the molding of which different social gatherings assume a crucial part. In a
few nations, laws have been executed and the legitimate position of ill-conceived kids has

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immensely made strides. The authenticity of a tyke in Hindu law relies upon the legitimacy of
the marriage under Hindu Marriage Act. The Hindu Marriage Act applies to a man who is Sikh,
Jain or Buddhist by religion. In this way, the wrongness criteria followed in over three religions
will be the same as followed in Hindu law. The strict translation of Hindu writings prompts a
determination that a tyke ought to have been imagined after marriage to be considered as real. A
Privy Council judgment, in any case, held that lone birth amid wedlock was an important model
of authenticity under the Hindu law, which is a coupling law. Under the normal law, a tyke for
being dealt with as genuine must be conceived in legal wedlock. In the event that the marriage
itself is void by virtue of negation of the statutory medicines, any youngster conceived of such
marriage would have the impact, in essence, or on being so proclaimed or invalidated, all things
considered, of adulterating the kids conceived of the gatherings to such marriage. Unlike a
honest to goodness child, an ill-conceived child does not obtain any enthusiasm for the tribal
property in the hands of his dad; nor does he can be a coparcenary in a Joint Hindu Family. He is
additionally not qualified for uphold segment against the family. The point of the examination is
to discover about the substantial Hindu Marriage Act and break down about the joint hindu
family property and parcel under the Act. This paper aims to study about the valid marriage
under Hindu Marriage Act and to study the joint family property and partition under the Act.

OBJECTIVES
1. To study about the valid marriage under Hindu Marriage Act.
2. To study the joint family property and partition under the Act.

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

The study is collected from national and international journals, books and publication
from various websites which give importance to property rights of illegitimate children.

OBSERVATION
HINDU
In India, up to this point, the law did not perceive the privileges of ill-conceived kids over
the property of their folks. With the alteration of Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act, the law
currently perceives an ill-conceived kid's directly finished the property of its folks. Kids resulting

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from wedlock in live seeing someone additionally procure a directly finished the property of
their folks.

HINDU LAW
The privileges of ill-conceived kids under Hindu Law have experienced an extreme
change because of the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Act, 1976 which corrected Section 16 of the
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. Before this alteration just certain rights identifying with Sudras had
been perceived. With respect to support, Section 20 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance
Act, 1956 states that a Hindu will undoubtedly look after his/her ill-conceived kids. The ill-
conceived child of a Sudra by a for all time kept courtesan has the status of a child and is an
individual from the family. Be that as it may, he doesn't secure on his introduction to the world a
joint enthusiasm with his dad in the familial family property. He likewise can't authorize parcel
against his dad amid his lifetime. In the event that a parcel is made amid the dad's lifetime, he
might be distributed an offer by the dad's decision. In any case, if a segment is made after the
dad's passing, the 'brethren should make him an accomplice of the moiety of an offer'. Along
these lines with respect to the ill-conceived children of the Sudras, the Court's view can be
outlined as takes after. The ill-conceived child can't authorize segment amid father's lifetime. On
the off chance that there is a parcel amid the dad's lifetime then he 'may' be assigned an offer. In
any case, if there is a segment after the dad's passing then the true blue children should give him
offer of the property. At the point when a genuine child and an ill-conceived child prevail to their
dad's different home, they take as coparceners with common privileges of survivorship.
However, the ill-conceived child of a Sudra isn't a coparcener with his dad, however he might be
a coparcener with his dad's true blue child, and he is qualified for request parcel against the true
blue child. This position isn't influenced by the Hindu Succession Act.

Legacy law present correction on Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act

The Amendment Act of 1976 (Act 68 of 1976) corrected Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act,
1955. By this alteration, regardless of whether marriage is invalid and void under Section 11, any
offspring of such marriage whether conceived previously or after the beginning of the
Amendment Act should be honest to goodness. Sub area 3 of this segment additionally allows a
privilege to property of the guardians, to such ill-conceived kids. By the utilization of the word

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'property' the area has kept the significance general and broad.The correction to Section 16 has
been presented and was achieved with the conspicuous motivation behind expelling the disgrace
of wrongness on kids conceived in void or voidable marriage.

The issues identifying with the degree of property rights presented on such youngsters under
Section 16(3) of the revised Act were first talked about in detail on account of Jinia Keotin and
Ors. v. Kumar Sitaram Manjhi and Ors. The fundamental conflict for this situation was whether
the term property in Section 16(3) included self procured property and additionally familial
property of the guardians. The Supreme Court, repulsing such conflicts held that in the light of
the express command of the lawmaking body there is no space for concurring upon such ill-
conceived youngsters a bigger number of rights than visualized. Doing as such would add up to
brutality of the arrangement and would endeavor to the court relegislating regarding the matter
under the appearance of elucidation. This perspective of the Supreme Court was followed in a
few different cases.

Consequently the Supreme Court by its thin elucidation constrained the extent of the segment.
Luckily, progressive choices of a similar court held the view to be restricted and even given
motivations to legitimize the same. On account of Revansiddappa and Ors v. Mallikarjuna and
Ors the Supreme Court expressed that the segment confined the privileges of such ill-conceived
youngsters as for property other than that of their folks. Notwithstanding, the said forbiddance
does not make a difference to the property of the guardians. Provisions (1) and (2) of Section 16
explicitly proclaim that such youngsters should be authentic. In the event that they have been
announced true blue, at that point they can't be oppressed and they will be at standard with other
honest to goodness youngsters, and be qualified for every one of the rights in the property of
their folks, both self-obtained and genealogical.

The sacred legitimacy of Section 16(3) of Hindu Marriage Act was tested under the steady gaze
of this Court and maintaining the law, this Court in Parayankandiyal Eravath Kanapravan
Kalliani Amma (Smt.) and Ors. v. K. Devi and Ors. , held that Hindu Marriage Act, a gainful
enactment, must be translated in a way which progresses the protest of the enactment. The Court
additionally perceived that the said Act expects to acquire regards to social changes and further

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held that conferment of economic wellbeing of authenticity on honest kids is the conspicuous
motivation behind Section 16. Consequently through a progression of enactments the Supreme
Court deciphered the segment in the light of its actual question which is to shield pure youngsters
from the status gave to them by society in this way advancing their interests.

On account of Revansiddappa and Ors v. Mallikarjuna and Ors the Supreme Court expounded on
the core of the change in Section 16(3), "The Court needs to recollect that connection between
the guardians may not be authorized by law but rather the introduction of a youngster in such
relationship must be seen autonomously of the relationship of the guardians.
A tyke conceived in such relationship is honest and is qualified for every one of the rights which
are given to other youngsters conceived in substantial marriage." Thus, under Hindu Law the ill-
conceived kids are regarded to be honest to goodness and are allowed a privilege to acquire the
property of their folks. This is the current lawful position on ideal to legacy as maintained in the
previously mentioned case and has been followed in a few different choices.

MUSLIM LAW
In the Muslim law, as in different frameworks of law, parentage includes certain rights
and commitments. All around there are two methods of filiation known to the law: when in doubt
the law regards the regular dad as the dad of the youngster; now and again, nonetheless,
reception prompts the outcome that somebody who isn't the dad of the kid procures rights like
those of the dad. Reception isn't perceived in Islam , as it was disliked by the Quran.
Notwithstanding filiation the other frame is 'affirmation of paternity'. The characteristic of
Muslim law is that in specific situations where it is far fetched whether a man is the offspring of
another, the affirmation of the dad gives on the youngster the status of authenticity.

What is critical to know is the contrast amongst authenticity and the procedure of legitimation.
Authenticity is the status which comes about because of specific actualities. Legitimation is a
procedure which makes the status of authenticity which did not exist previously and in the best
possible feeling of term, there is no legitimation in Muslim law. Affirmation of paternity or Iqrar
is a sort of lawful confirmation. It is for all intents and purposes the most decisive and un-

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controvertible methods for making a commitment on the individual who makes it. In Muhammad
Allahdad v. Muhammad Ismail, the Court watched.

"Where the paternity of the tyke that is, his honest to goodness drop from his dad can't be
demonstrated by setting up a marriage between his folks and at the season of his origination of
birth, Muslim Law perceived 'affirmation' and authentic plummet can be set up as an issue of
substantive law for reasons for legacy."

The regulation of affirmation or iqrar gives a status of authenticity on a youngster whether child
or a little girl. Mulla clarifies the same in Section 342 of Principle of Mohamedan Law. The
much took after case on the principle of affirmation is the choice of the Privy Council in Sadik
Hussain Khan v. Hashim Ali Khan, wherein it was built up that in instances of vulnerability of
true blue plummet, an affirmation by the dad raises the assumption of authenticity except if the
opposite side can demonstrate that the kid whose paternity was recognized was of ill-conceived
drop.

This teaching can be conjured just where the factum of marriage or the correct time of marriage
has not been demonstrated. It depends on the presumption of a legal relationship between the
gatherings of the recognized tyke. The regulation of affirmation anyway can't be the place the
legitimate relationship between the guardians of the tyke isn't conceivable as on account of
depraved intercourse or double-crossing association. The tenet is additionally not material where
the marriage important to render the tyke true blue is discredited. An affirmation require not
really be express. It might be assumed from the treatment and direct prompting a derivation of
affirmation. It is a basic condition to the legitimacy of an affirmation that the physical connection
of dad and kid ought not involve difficulty. The assumption of paternity emerging from
affirmation can be invalidated by evidence that physical relationship involves inconceivability.

In a choice by the Privy Council it expressed that where there is an issue of the presence of a
marriage between the guardians, something more than the affirmation of paternity is required.
This rule has additionally been used for the situation, Abode Razack v. AGA Mohamed Jaffer
Bindaneem , where Lord Macnaghten states the accompanying On the other hand, where no

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marriage is appeared to exist or where the mistress isn't a slave courtesan, the unimportant
affirmation of paternity isn't sufficient to afford verification of authenticity; the treatment must
be, for example, to pass on the way that the youngster is recognized not only as the off-spring of
the dad yet as his true blue posterity."

In this way where there is an uncertainty with respect to the presence of marriage then simple
affirmation of paternity isn't adequate. Be that as it may, in situations where the marriage is
unpredictable or voidable, the affirmation of paternity by the dad, gave the same is substantial, is
adequate confirmation for the legitimation of the kid's status. Under Muslim law ill-conceived
tyke has no privilege of legacy from both of the guardians under both Shia and Sunni schools
however such youngsters can guarantee upkeep from mother just under Sunni law up-to the age
of seven years.

Right to Inherit Property

Under Muslim Law, the ill-conceived youngster has no privilege to acquire property from
the dad. Under the Hanafi law the mother and her ill-conceived kids have common privileges of
legacy. The ill-conceived tyke acquires the property of its mom as well as the property of every
single other connection with whom it is connected through the mother. In Pavitri v.
Katheesumma Vaidiaalingam J. held, "Mohammadan law seems to force no weight upon the
regular dad of an ill-conceived child..."Muslim Law likewise does not present any privilege to
support to the ill-conceived kid, however the Hanafis perceive the commitment to sustain the
youngster till age 7. In any case, such youngsters can look for cure under Section 125 of the
Cr.PC which ought to guarantee that all such ill-conceived kids are kept up by their folks. The
same has been perceived by the Courts in a few cases.

CHRISTIAN LAW
Under Christian Law, an ill-conceived tyke is perceived as 'fillius nullius' which implies
offspring of nobody. Not at all like Hindu Law, which makes a status of authenticity on the tyke
(Section 16 of HMA, 1955) there is no arrangement in Christian Law which relates to the same.
The property privileges of Christians are secured under the Indian Succession Act, 1925. The
term 'kid' as utilized as a part of this Act, does exclude ill-conceived kids. Area 37 of the Act

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particularly blocks ill-conceived kids from acquiring property of the dad. In any case, this does
not confine such youngsters from asserting support under Section 125 of the Cr.PC. Like Hindu
and Muslim Law, the guardianship of the kid is exclusively with the mother and her relations.
The putative dad has nothing to do with this issue. This is given in Section 8 of the Indian
Succession Act. Through a few choices of the Court, we can watch that if the two guardians have
co habited for an extensive stretch or if the man regards the lady as his better half, at that point
the youngsters are viewed as real. This was held on account of Rameshwari Devi v. Territory of
Bihar and Vidhyadhari and others v. Sukhrana Bai and a few different cases. Along these lines
under Christian Law, ill-conceived kids are rejected from appropriate to acquire property of the
guardians yet are conceded a privilege to support under the common law i.e. Area 125 of the
Cr.PC.

FINDINGS
1. He planned impregnation is made on the spouse, not on another lady
2. The planned impregnation of the spouse is finished with the sperm of the husband or of a
contributor or both the husband and a benefactor;
3.The managed impregnation has been approved or confirmed by the mates in a composed
instrument executed and marked by them before the introduction of the kid; and
4.The composed instrument previously mentioned is recorded in the civilregistry together with
the birth endorsement of the youngster.

SUGGESTIONS
(a) Those conceived of couples who are not legitimately hitched, or of custom-based law
relational unions
(b) Those conceived of bigamous relational unions
(c) Those conceived of double-crossing relations between the guardians;
(d) Those conceived of couples underneath 18, regardless of whether they are hitched (which
marriage is void) or not;
(e) Those conceived inside relational unions that are void from the earliest starting point Under
Article 35

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(f) Those conceived of relational unions that are forbidden and void from the earliest starting
point under Article 37
(g) Those conceived of void relational unions for reasons of open approach under Article 38.

CONCLUSION
Kids conceived ill-conceived, regardless of the present dynamic culture endure social
shame and this affects their status in the public eye. Society, in nations like our own, still
victimizes such kids. Indeed, even with the adjustments in the law, because of the impact of
profound set religious reasoning and preferences that impact our conduct, the Indian culture isn't
extremely tolerating towards such ill-conceived issue. Added to such injury it appears to be
unreasonable that such kids are not allowed the privilege to prevail to their folks' property.
Luckily, the Courts through their choices have communicated concern and adequately talked
about how they ought not be unreasonably rebuffed for the demonstrations of their folks. On
account of Revansidappa v. Mallikarjuna and Ors the Supreme Court communicated its
sensitivity for such kids. The Hindu Law gives adequate insurance to the privileges of such
youngsters. In any case, other individual laws like Muslim Law or Christian Law are not all that
expound. As watched before, Muslim Law limits it to property of the mother and Christian Law
does not give any such rights. It was viewed as that suspending the ill-conceived youngster from
acquiring the property of its folks would hinder assist ages from going into a sexual relationship
outside marriage and would uphold a strict administration of appropriate socially acceptable
sexual behaviors in the public eye. Nonetheless, patterns and measurements have demonstrated
that the issue of ill-conceived births in the nation has been expanding at a disturbing rate;
subsequently the above contention to legitimize the prohibition of ill-conceived youngsters from
acquiring property of guardians can't be purchased and crashes and burns.

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