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The Dacca Reports 1949-51

1951

1 the Maharaja was the landlord of the Plaintiff in respect of the dar taluk and as superior landlord was etitled to realise rent from the Plaintiff but _ not from the under-tenants direct and dcreed the suit of the Plaintiff. [...] 153 of the Bengal Tenancy Act I am of opinion that the suit is really in the nature of a rent suit the decision of which rests on a decision of the question of title to the land. [...] On the findings of fact arrived at by both the Courts below namely that the Maharaja is a superior landlord in respect of the lands in suit and that the Plaintiff is a tenant under the Maharaja in respect of the same land. [...] At the hearing of the suit the Plaintiffs conceded the existence of the cutom pleaded by the Defendants but contened that the custom of property going to the sister of the woman who had died on the marriage of that sister to the woman's husband was restricted to.a rase where the marriage to the second sister had taken place before the death of the first sister Held—That under the Caro Cust [...] At the end of the eighteenth century the Garos inhabiting the outer ranges had been brought to some extent under the authority of the zamindars but the villages in the interior were entirely independent.
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315
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SARF Document ID
sarf.100104
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