20140520 TZHC Arusha
- Citation
- 20140520 TZHC Arusha
- Status
- Judgment
- Jurisdiction
- Tanzania
- Court
- TZHC
- Decision
- 20 May 2014
- Posture
- Miscellaneous Civil Application / Ruling
- Language
- English
More details
- Court
- TZHC
- Decision
- 20 May 2014
- Posture
- Miscellaneous Civil Application / Ruling
- Language
- English
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01
Holding and result
Only those with blood ties to the deceased are entitled to inherit in intestate succession; upbringing alone does not confer inheritance rights.
Court disposition
Application granted with costs.
Orders
- Declared Ramadhani Maabadi, Mohamed Maabadi, Hamadi Maabadi, Twaha Maabadi, Halima Maabadi, Tausi Maabadi, Hawa Moshi Waida (Wayda), Ashura Moshi Waida (Wayda), Hassani Moshi Waida (Wayda), and Nuru Moshi Waida (Wayda) as lawful beneficiaries/heirs of the estate of the late Nina Omari.
- Declared Maka Serafini and Shibesh Abebe are not beneficiaries/heirs to the estate of the late Nina Omari.
- Vacated requirement for written consent of two beneficiaries to price; price to be controlled by market price.
- Directed administrator (4th respondent) to immediately sell Plot No.2 Block 22, Kaloleni, Arusha Municipality and distribute proceeds to beneficiaries.
02
Material facts
Parties
Ramadhani Maabadi
ApplicantHamadi Maabadi
ApplicantMaka Serafini
RespondentShibesh Abebe
RespondentMohamed Maabadi
RespondentEzra Joshua Mwaluko
RespondentAmounts and remedies
- Plot Number: 2
03
Procedural history
Posture
Miscellaneous Civil Application / Ruling
04
Questions and positions
Legal issues
- 01
Who are the lawful beneficiaries/heirs to the estate of the late Nina Omari?
- 02
Whether Maka Serafini and Shibesh Abebe are beneficiaries/heirs to the estate of the late Nina Omari
- 03
Whether written consent of two beneficiaries to the price under the agreement for amicable settlement should be dispensed with
Party arguments
- Applicant
- Applicants argued that they and other named individuals are blood relatives of the deceased and thus lawful heirs, while the 1st and 2nd respondents have no blood ties and should not inherit.
- Respondent
- 1st respondent claimed to have been brought up by the deceased but did not demonstrate blood relationship; 4th respondent did not oppose the application.
05
Court’s reasoning
Legal principles
- 01
Court's reasoning and general principles of intestate succession
Inheritance rights are based on blood ties unless a will provides otherwise.
06
Ratio, limits and disposition
Ratio decidendi
Only those with blood ties to the deceased are entitled to inherit in intestate succession; upbringing alone does not confer inheritance rights.
Obiter and limits
- Requirement for written consent of two beneficiaries to the price under the agreement for amicable settlement is vacated; price to be controlled by market price.
Court disposition
Application granted with costs.
- Declared Ramadhani Maabadi, Mohamed Maabadi, Hamadi Maabadi, Twaha Maabadi, Halima Maabadi, Tausi Maabadi, Hawa Moshi Waida (Wayda), Ashura Moshi Waida (Wayda), Hassani Moshi Waida (Wayda), and Nuru Moshi Waida (Wayda) as lawful beneficiaries/heirs of the estate of the late Nina Omari.
- Declared Maka Serafini and Shibesh Abebe are not beneficiaries/heirs to the estate of the late Nina Omari.
- Vacated requirement for written consent of two beneficiaries to price; price to be controlled by market price.
- Directed administrator (4th respondent) to immediately sell Plot No.2 Block 22, Kaloleni, Arusha Municipality and distribute proceeds to beneficiaries.
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TZHC · 20 May 2014
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TZHC
Judgment· 20 May 2014
IN THE HIGH COURT OF TANZANIA AT ARUSHA.- MISC.CIVIL.APPLICATION NO. 158 OF 2013 (C/F High Court of Tanzania at Arusha Probate and Administration Cause No. 10 of 2013) 1.RAMADHANI MAABADI } 2. HAMADI MAABADI ........................................... ·....... APPLICANTS Versus 1. MAKA SERAFINI 2. SHIBESH ABEBE 3. MOHAMED MAABADI ..•..................................... RES PON DENTS 4. EZRA JOSHUA MWALUKO RULING: F.H. MASSENGI,J. Applicants Ramadhani Maabadi and Hamadi Maabadi herein and afcer .reffered as 1st and 2nd applicant's respectively are applying for the following orders:- 1. An order for a direction that in administration of the estate of the deceased NINA OMARII by the administrator, the following persons are beneficiaries/heirs entitled to a share in the estate namely RAMADHANI MAABADI, HAMADI MAABADI, TWAHA MAABADI, HALIMA MAABADI, TAUSI MAABADI, HAWA MOSH WAIDA(WAYDA), ASHURA MOSHI, WAI.DA (WAYDA), HASAN! MOSHI WAI.DA (WAYDA) and NURU MOSHI WAIDA (WAYDA).
2. An order for direction that the first and 2nd respondents namely MAKA SERAFINI and SHIBESH ABEBE are. not beneficiaries/heirs to_ the estate of the deceased NINA OMARI because they don't have any blood ties with the deceased NINA OMAR!. . 1 --d -; ~:.3.I :1 --7 they have demonstrated that they have demonstrated that they have blood relationship with the peceased, I totally agree with him as he has submitted that in the applic~nt's submissions page 3 they have clearly demonstrated as to how they are blood related to the deceased which is traced to originated from two sisters from the same father and mother and the named persons are the children of the two blood sisters. And therefore order and direct that to RAMADHANI MAABDAI, MOHAMED MAABADI, HAMADI MAABADI, lWAHA MAABADI, HALIMA MAABADI, TAUSI MAABADI, HAWA MOSHI WAIDA(WAYDA), ASHURA MOSHI WAIDA(WAYDA, HASSANI MOSHI WAIDA (WAYDA) and NURU MOSHI WAIDA (WAYDA), and 3rd respondent MOHAMED MAABADI are the lawful beneficiaries/heirs of the estate of the late NINA OMARI through blood ties. On the second issue that is 1st respondent Maka Serafini and 2nd respondent Shibesh Abebe are not beneficiaries/heirs of the estate of the late NINA OMARI as they don't have any blood ties, 1st respondent in her counter affidavit demonstrate that' he was brought up with the deceased since his infancy, that alone does not give him the right to
inherent as it is blood ties which gives right to inheritance whose deceased have left a will to that effect I don't agree with the . 4th respondents submission who didn't oppose the application that the deceased did intestate as she. did left any will behind. Since the 1st and 2nd respondent have not prove to have any blood ties with the deceased only that 1st respondent was brought up by the deceased his rights if any ceased on the day when deceased passed away. I therefore direct that 1st respondent MAKA SERAFINI and 2nd respondent SHIBESH ABEBE are not beneficiaries/heirs to the estate of the late NINA OMAR!. In regard to the issue that th.is court to give directions that the requireme~t- of a written consent of the two beneficiaries to the price under paragraph 6 of the Agreement for amicable settlement be dispensed ,with effecting the, sale of t~e property/asset of the estate of 3 ·. NINA OMAR! that is Plot No,2 Block 22; Kaloleni, .Arusha Municipality, after considering the circumstances of this application,,_ I hereby direct . that requirei:nent for written consent . bf two beneficiaries to price is hereby vacated and the price to be controlled by the market price. : · I also direct the administrator who the applicant are not opposing to administrator the estate in issue 4th respondent so immediately sale the property on Plot No.2 Block 22,Kalolen I Area Arusha Municipality and have the proceeds there of distributed to the beneficiari~s of the estate of the late NINA OMAR!. The application is hereby granted with costs. (Sgd) F.H. fy1ASSENGI
JUDGE 20/5/2014 . ; . .;,. Delivered court this 20th May 2014 in presence of applicant and in absence of the respondents. (Sgd) F.H. MASSENGI
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