Decisions of the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut: Recorded in English in Conformity to Act XII. 1843, in 1845[-1861] : with Indexes of Names of Parties, and the Causes of Action, and Principal Points Touched Upon in the Decision

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W. Ridsdale, Bengal Military Orphan Press, 1854
 

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Page 262 - Family Shakspeare : In which nothing is added to the Original Text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud.
Page 398 - A custom, however, having been found to prevail in the jungle mehals of Midnapur and other districts, by which the succession to landed estates invariably devolves to a single heir without the division of the property...
Page 400 - ... to Government, except upon proof that he is entitled so to do, either by the special custom of the district, or by the conditions under which the talookdar holds his tenure : or that the talookdar, by receiving abatements from his jumma, has subjected himself to the payment of the increase demanded, and that the lands are capable of affording it.
Page 134 - The general rule certainly is, that all persons materially interested in a suit, ought to be parties to it, either as plaintiffs or defendants, that a complete decree may be made between those parties.
Page 337 - ... lands, houses or other real property, a memorial of which has been or shall be duly registered according to law, shall, provided its authenticity be established to the satisfaction of the Court, invalidate any other deed of sale or gift for the same property which may not have been registered, and whether such second or other deed shall have been executed prior or subsequent to the registered deed — and that from the said day every deed of mortgage on land, houses and other real property as...
Page 134 - The great objects of a court of equity are, to do complete justice by settling the rights of all persons interested in the subject of the suit, to make the performance of the orders of the court perfectly safe, and to prevent future litigation and multiplicity of suits.
Page 903 - Court shall be conclusive of the repesentative title against all debtors to the deceased, and shall afford full indemnity to all debtors paying their debts to the person in whose favor the certificate has been granted.
Page 134 - ... they may be, so that a complete decree may be made between those parties ; otherwise, not being before the Court on pronouncing the decree, the decree is imperfect as to them, and they are not bound by it. And it is...
Page 39 - We remark that it has become the established practice of our courts, in cases of contract, to require satisfactory proof that consideration has actually been received, according to the terms of the contract. It has never been held in our courts that a contract made under seal of itself imports that there was a sufficient consideration for the agreement.
Page 24 - Adawlat are prohibited from hearing, trying, or determining the merits of any suit whatever, against any person or persons, if the cause of action shall have arisen twelve years before any suit shall have been commenced on account of it...

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