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 January 2 1911

563 by the Privy Council the decision in Alanga Monjori’s case demanded reconsideration The ratio decdendi in Alanga Monjori’s case was that the law had not been changed by the Hindu Wills Act and that in view of the fact that a bequest could not be made to an unborn person in Hindu Law the provisions of secs. [...] The little book before us is the first part of a work in the two other parts of which it is proposed to deal with the rules under the Indian Arms Act and the Indian Explosives Act. [...] The next question was Was the sustance of the transaction explained to the Defenant ? The jury found that it was as to the Z.roo note but as to the £400 note the jury said it was not but that she did know she was incurring a liability for the benefit of her husband. [...] From that decree the present appeal was preferred and the only point urged was whether the Court of Appeal had erred in holding that the Plaintiffs were etitled to maintain the suit for khas possession against the Defendants on the ground of ferfeiture by reason of denial of the tenancy' in a previous rent suit. [...] Held—Where the Court had negatived in a previous suit the relationship of landlord and tenant at the instance of the Defendants it was not open to the Defendants to argue that that relationship should be established in his favour and that he should by virtue thereof be given the benefit of the provisions of the Bengal Tenancy Act Debiruddi v. Abdur Rahim (I.