Through this article we discuss the opinion of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in the Bhopal Nawab property succession case as it throws light on the complicated legal issues of the private property of former rulers. The case was remanded to the court to be tried once again, with stress on personal law, merger agreements and the clauses of the constitution especially in the case when a previous judgment on which the case had laid its relied-upon basis was being abridged by the Supreme Court.