Because it is quite possible that the debts that he has inherited along with the property may be much more than the value of the property and under the provisions of this Act it is necessary that the whole of the property of the applicant must come in every property along with the property that he has inherited will be brought into the pool. [...] Assuming that the debt comes down to the greagrandson or even to the grandson the money-lender knowing the immense importance attached by a Hindu to the welfare of his ancestors will always be able to induce the heir to take on the debt by signing a fresh bond thereby giving the debt a new lease of life for two more generations. [...] The first is as follows : If the debts of a landlord are the debts due from his deceased ancestor or donor which are legally recoverable only from certain property in the possession of the landlord only such property and no other property belonging to the landlord shall be dealt with under the provisions of this Act and all references to the property of the landlord in the various sections of t [...] One was that the promise was made before any of us now here was born ; and the second was that the author of the promise is dead. I earnestly hope Sir that the Government have not in their latest phase become such admirers of a former German Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg as to treat past promises as so many scraps of paper ; or in the alternative that the corollary of the position which the H [...] The section of the Penal Code to which I have twice referred in the course of this speech makes it a penal offence for the subject to attempt to bring the Government into contempt or by a stretch of language as contempt is a very vague and elastic term to lower the Government in the estimation of the public.
- Pages
- 66
- Published in
- India
- SARF Document ID
- sarf.100003