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 August 13 1900

Justice Denniston and the Court off' Appeal considered the evidence of the lawyer of the doctor or the widow the Respondent her daughters and various members of the Lawrenson family. [...] R. 1 P. & D. r54) the presumption will be more or lets strong according to the character of the custody which the testator had over the Will.' The JUDGMENT goes on to say that the cases cited by Appellants to minimize the force of the presumtion have nothing to do with the case before their Lordships ; that there was no objection to the way in which the law was applied by the learned judges i [...] In the present dispute the judgmendebtor the Respondent objected to the application for execution of that decree on the ground that interest claimed by the decree-holder after the 20th July 1886 the dater fixed by the Court passing the decree for payment of the amount decreed was not recoverable under the decree. [...] In the event of default in payment of the entire decretal amount the hypothecated property be sold by auction in satisfaction of the decretal amount by enforcement of the lien and in the event of any portion of the decretal amount remaining unpaid the balance of the decretal amount be recovered from the other property of the debtor deceased. [...] They alleged that the Will was not the Will of the deceased and that the sivature of the deceased on the Will was a forgery.