(1.) THE significant question of law before this Full Bench on a reference has been succinctly formulated in the following terms: -
(2.) ON appeal, the judgment and decree above -mentioned was affirmed by the first appellate Court. The second appeal came up before my learned brother Jain, J. , who referred the question _to a Larger Bench in view of the conflict of authority on the point. The Division Bench before which the matter was placed, directed that the issue was of such significance that it should be finally settled by a Full Bench.
(3.) SECTION 14 of the Hindu Succession Act, around which necessarily the controversy revolves, is in the following terms: -