The Bengal Law Reports of Decisions of the High Court at Fort William Civil and Criminal in Its Original and Appellate Jurisdictions: Privy Council Decisions on Indian Appeals; Orders and Rules of the High Court; and Revenue Circular Orders ..., Volume 12

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Louis Arthur Goodeve
Printed and pub. for the Bengal Council of Law Reporting by Thacker, Spink, & Company, 1873 - Law reports, digests, etc
Vol. 6-9 include also acts of the Supreme Council; v. 6-8, acts of the Bengal Council.

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Page 431 - He further urged that there was no evidence of any intention on the part of...
Page 423 - In cases not provided for by the former part of this section, or by any other law for the time being in force, the Court shall act according to justice, equity, and good conscience.
Page 325 - Court, against the certified purchaser on the ground that the purchase was made on behalf of another person not the certified purchaser, though by agreement the name of the certified purchaser was used, shall be dismissed with costs.
Page 30 - ... to show cause why a new trial should not be granted. The...
Page 60 - Judge, and upheld the decree of the Court of first instance. From that decree the defendants have appealed to Her Majesty in Council. Their Lordships are of opinion that the decision of the High Court is correct. The plaintiffs were assignees of the...
Page 200 - ... (c) any other questions arising between the parties to the suit in which the decree was passed, or their representatives, and relating to the execution, discharge or satisfaction of the decree, or to the stay of execution thereof. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to bar a separate suit for mesne profits accruing between the institution of the first suit and the execution of the decree...
Page 311 - Where a right, question or fact is distinctly put in issue and directly determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a former suit between the same parties...
Page 208 - Arathoon, for the Respondents, was not called upon. The judgment of their Lordships was delivered by...
Page 113 - Courts ; then s. 20 declares that the jurisdiction of a Munsif extends to all like suits in which the amount or value of the subject-matter in dispute does not exceed Ra.
Page 338 - The normal state of every Hindu family is joint. Presumably every such family is joint in food, worship, and estate. In the absence of proof of division, such is the legal presumption ; but the members of the family may sever in all, or any of these three things.

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