703/2007 Suit MRS. BILQUIS MOHSIN BUTT & OTHERS. (Plaintiff) V/S MUHAMMAD MAHMOOD BUTT & ORS. (Defendant)
Sindh High Court
Bench: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Nazar Akbar
Order Date: 30-JAN-15
(a) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)--- ----O. XX, R. 13---Administration suit---Limitation---Scope---Suit for administration was only a formality to determine the mode of distribution of the estate of the deceased amongst the legal heirs according to the Shariah---Court would act only as an administrator in such suit for a limited purpose---Plaintiff was required to satisfy the court in a suit for administration and partition, his status as legal heir of the deceased and proprietary rights of the deceased in the estate at the time of opening of succession---Question of limitation in case of joint family properties did not arise---In the present case, none of the properties mentioned in the schedule were part of the estate of the deceased---Plaintiff could not seek administration and partition of the disputed properties---Suit was dismissed in circumstances. Pattoki Sugar Mills Limited through Chief Executive v. WAPDA through Chairman and 4 others 2007 CLD 659 and Anjum Rashid and others v. Shahzad and others 2007 CLC 1414 and Ghulam Ali and 2 others v. Mst. Ghulam Sarwar Naqvi PLD 1990 SC 1 rel. (b) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)--- ----O. XX, R. 13---Administration suit---Limitation---Question of limitation in case of joint family properties did not arise. (c) Company--- ----Limited company was a juristic person and a legal entity separate from its share-holder and any change in the shareholding of a company did not mean change in the title of assets of the company or premises occupied thereby---Properties of a company could not be inherited by the legal heirs of one of its Directors or even ordinary shareholders of the company---Legal heirs of a deceased director or shareholder of a company could claim inheritance only to the extent of shareholding of the deceased Director or shareholder in the company and not in the assets of the company as estate of the deceased. (d) Islamic law--- ----Succession---Classes of legal heirs---Classes of legal heirs of deceased (in Sunni Hanfi Law of Succession) were sharer, residuaries and uterine (distant kindred). (e) Islamic Law--- ----Distribution of the estate of deceased---Procedure. Muhammadan Law paras 61 and 63 quoted. (f) Islamic law--- ----Succession---Succession to the estate of a Muslim would open immediately, he had passed away and title would pass to the legal heirs automatically to the extent of their respective shares ordained by Shariah without any interference by the State functionaries. (g) Islamic law--- ---- Inheritance---Grand-children whose father or mother had survived their grand-father had no locus standi to claim inheritance in the estate of the deceased grand-father---Once father/mother of grand-children had died (true legal heirs of grand-father) they could file a suit for administration of the estate left by their deceased parents and if there was any undistributed property from the estate of their grand-father, continued to be in existence, they could include "share" of their deceased parents in the said estate of their own deceased father or mother but they could not reopen the issue of inheritance from the entire estate of their grand-parents---Grand-children could not claim as matter of their own right any share in the estate of their grand-father.Full judgment text for this case is not yet available on Pakistan Law Reports. Check the official Sindh High Court case law portal for the complete order.
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