Uganda Case Law

Begum v Din and Another

Begum v Din and Another (Civil Appeal No, 16 of 1951) [1951] EACA 102 (1 January 1951)

Court

East African Court of Appeal

Case number

Civil Appeal No, 16 of 1951

Judges

Nihill P, Pearson, Ag. C.J. (Uganda), Worley VP

Court of Appeal construed a partly written, partly oral Mohammedan will and held the adopted daughter was not within “other relations”; the brother was excluded from that class.

• Will Construction
• Mohammedan Succession
• Adopted Children Rights
• Intestate Distribution
• Will-construction
• Mohammedan-succession