The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters February 16 1908

Held (Mitra and Caspersz JJ.)—There is nothing in the policy of the law or custom of the country to prevent the creation of an intermediate tenure between putnidar and a (tar-putnidar. [...] A person holding a perndanent interest though an interest of an inferior grade may bring a suit for partition as against persons who hold interests of a superior grade so that if a putnidar who has a dur putnidar under him declines to bring a suit for partition against the co-putnidars the dur-putnidar as representing the interest of such putnidar may bring a suit for partition against the c [...] 1. The plaintiff claimed to recover possession of debutter land on the allegation that the shebaits in order to meet certain charges under the Drainage Act granted a mourasi 7110kOlraTi potta of the disputed land on the 4th April 1900. [...] The shebaits however could not meet the drainage charges and accordingly the land was sold under the provisions of the Public Demands Recovery Act and purchased by the contending defendant on the 3rd June 1901. [...] The certificate under which the defendant purchased was of 1900-1 and consequently the drainage charges were heel:ming due at the time of the plaintiff's potta.