The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters January 16 1929

Deoki then appealed to the High Court contesting the right of plaintiff to maintain the suit at the present stage and also the finding that the will was spurious. [...] Govind Prasad as Karta of a joint family governed by the Mitakshara and including minor sons applied to the High Court for being appointed guardian of the property of minors so that he might effect a sale of the family property on the ground that the transaction was a very profitable bargain for the minors and the applicant himself. [...] Held (per.Boys and Iqbal Ahmad U.) that neither the High Court nor the District Court would contemplate the appointment of a guardian of property whether that guardian was manager or not in the case of a joint Hindu family by virtue of the powers conferred on either Court by the Guardian and Wards Act and although the High Court had jurisdiction by virtue of clause ra of the Letters Patent i [...] Held (per Sulaiman and Kendall ff.) that the judgments of the Criminal courts were only conclusive for the purpose of showing that the prosecution terminated in favour of the plaintiff but it was doubtful if the findings of the Crim inal Courts by themselves were any evidence of malice or want of reasonable and probable cause and that it was for the Civil Court to go into all the evidence and dec [...] In the legal sense conveyance is the evidence of the transfer of property i. e. an instrument which transfers property from one person to another and osonveyancing is the science of the alienation of property.