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 November 23 1908

In his view the only justification for modifying the views of the Privy Council would be if the majority of the Mahomedan community (the land-owners and the land-less) could be found (by some method of vottaking) in favour of "subjecting the living to the wishes and caprices of the dead." The determintion of such an intricateuestion of law and economics by the taking of a plebescite would [...] At the last settlement of the North Western Provinces in the year 1872 in regard to the houses it was recorded that the persons who were occupiers of the houses were the owners of the houses and the Petitioner claimed title as owner and not as tenant that is as owner against the zemindar without any right of the zemindar to assess rent upon them. [...] In regard to the groves it appears that there was a dispute in regard to the exact nature of the title in those groves which was settled as between the zemidar and the owners of the groves—by which it was agreed that although the owners of the groves should be treated as proprietors they should be entered in the Registers not as the /Melva! but that the khewal should remain in the zemindar a [...] On the 6th May the Court ordered the Plaintiff to file correct description of the boundaries of the land as the description given in the copies of the plaint was incorrect. [...] For the Respondent it was urged that the substantial prayer in the petition of 1904 was the arrest of the judgment-debtors which was against the terms of the decree and the Court could not have granted the same and the application was null and void.