Question:medium

Principle : Property can be transferred only by a living person to another living person.
Facts : 'A‘ transfers property of which he is the owner in favor of the unborn child of B.
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Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • Property has been transferred to the unborn child
  • Property has been transferred to B
  • Property has not been transferred to the unborn child
  • Property will be transferred to the unborn child after his birth
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The Correct Option is C

Approach Solution - 1

Step 1: Understanding the Question:
We need to decide whether A's transfer in favor of an unborn child has any legal effect at the moment it is made.

Step 2: Key Formula or Approach:
Apply the principle that property can be transferred only from a living person to another living person, and check whether both sides of this transfer meet that requirement.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation:
A, the transferor, is a living person, so that side of the transfer is fine. But the intended transferee, B's unborn child, does not yet exist as a living person at the time A makes the transfer. The principle requires a living person on both ends of the transfer, and because the child has not been born yet, that requirement fails on the transferee's side.

Step 4: Final Answer:
Since the unborn child is not a living person yet, property has not been transferred to the unborn child.
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Approach Solution -2

Work through this by eliminating the option that misreads who the intended transferee was, then the one that invents a later automatic transfer, before deciding between what remains.

  1. Property has been transferred to B: Eliminate this first, A's transfer was expressly in favour of B's unborn child, not B himself, so there is no basis to say the property passed to B.
  2. Property will be transferred to the unborn child after his birth: Eliminate this too, the principle requires both parties to be living at the time of the transfer, it does not provide for the same transfer to complete itself automatically once that condition is later met.
  3. Property has been transferred to the unborn child: Between the two remaining options, this one requires treating the unborn child as a living person at the time of transfer, which he is not.
  4. Property has not been transferred to the unborn child: Once the others are eliminated, this is what remains, and it follows directly, since the unborn child was not a living person when A made the transfer.

Eliminating the option built on the wrong transferee and the one that invents automatic completion leaves the conclusion that the transfer never took effect.

Therefore, the correct answer is Property has not been transferred to the unborn child.

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