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The Calcutta Weekly 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 July 24 1922

1922

The trial Court held that the said document was not in existence at the date of the suit and that it had been manufactured in the course of the trial and dismissed the Plaitiff's suit. [...] On appeal the District Judge affirmed the decree of the trial Court holding that the agent of the Defendant No. [...] Babus Dwarka Nath Chakravarti and Kalkinkar Chakravarti for the Appellant invited the Judges to examine the correspondence between the parties which preceded the exection of the docuMent and to hold that they diclose a completed contract between the parties. [...] The Defendant's contention was that the parties were not Hindus governed by the either School of the Hindu law but their inheritance was governed by special custom by which females do not-in-- berit but the properties pass by survivorship to the male members and that even if the partition were allowed the interest of the minor Defendants' reversioners should be safguarded. [...] as such to he governed by the Hindu law (2) that the Defendant had failed to prove the special custom and the parties being residents of District Maldah where the Bengal School of law prevails the Courts belowere right in holding that the parties were governed by the Bengal School of Hindu law and that the Plaintiff was entitled to get partition of the property.
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The Calcutta Weekly 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 July 24 1922
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