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The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday August 6 1917

1917

The Plaintiff instituted the suit for the rcovery of the disputed plots about fifty in number in the village Mahiiong of which Government is the landlord. [...] l's father Somra was the recognised pahan of the village and so his name was recorded in respect of the diputed plots in the papers of the Bhuihari survey ; that Somra till his death used to propitiate the spirits performed the village worship and posessed the lands and on his death Defendant No. [...] 1 in the discharge of his duties as pahan of the village; that the said (-Beer asked the villagers to appoint another pahan if they liked ; that thereupon the raiyats of the village appointed the Plaintiff as pahan of the village in the place of the Defendant No. [...] The High Court on second appeal in confiring the decision of the Judicial Commissioner held that the election of the Plaintiff as a pahan was invalid as he was elected by a majority amongst the villagers with the sanction of a Deputy Collector and not in accordance with the custom in the village which is that " some villager shall carry on his head a basket ; he is blindfolded and the house bef [...] The Iudgment-debtor took various' objections to the execution of the decree ; girt the objetions were overSuled by the Munsif of Uluberia and on appeal by the Subordinate Judge of Hughli.
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday August 6 1917
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