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 9 1920

Sarman replied that it would be immaterial proving on account of the fallacy of trot I the slave status of a slave's daughter ( who had already reached the marriageable condition).* that if it were alleged that in the absence of evdence of the general factor of the status of a slave's daughter the fact of her being the daughter of Mati.Dana should be taken to be that evidence it would be beg [...] Hereupon Tula Rama Sarman was required by the Defendant Mapinatha Sarman to ()rove the [Adjourn= meths slave status in the mother of Saito of the name of Yado. [...] The document having been found in the village of Dharampore Pis-. trict Darbhanga and manuscripts being curent there in the handwriting of Sachala Alisra it is clear as also from the Maithili script of the judgment itself that the judgment was given in Tirhut. [...] The holders of the.Raj were the " rulers '' under a grant from the Muhammadan Emperor. who conferred the ancient principality of Tirhut 011 one Mahesh Thakur and the descendants of this Mahesh Thakur had been the "ati. [...] landholders " knew " (t) for their ancestors had held their lands from them and " until -the East India Company assumed the dominion over this territory " the Zamindars of 'Tirhut paid rents " as vassals or as holders " to these Rajas of Tirhut " who were the rulers of the Country " the Zamidars " knowing nothing of the Emperor from whom the grant to this founder of the family (Mahesh Thakur) w