The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles & Other Matters July 1 1913

in the case of K. B. Dull v. Cost& Behary Bhuiya (1) state in the judgment so far as we can ascertain from the materials before us there is nothing to ladicate that in that decree the petitioners invoked the application of the provisions of any section of the Tenancy Act..' From the facts of the case as appears from the'report it seems that the decree-holder petitioner brought a suit for ren [...] Say the learned Judges :— A person who is in adverse possession of land for 12 years acquires a title to the land the rights of the owner of the land being extinguished ; and since a mortgage is merely a security for the debt and the interest in the land remained in the mortgagor it is difficult to see how the existence of the. [...] Under section 14 of th% Limitation Act the plaintiff was of course held entitled to a deduction of the period from the filing of the plaint in the first Court to its re-prsentation in the second one and it was further held on the authority of numerous cases amongst others the following that the plaintiff could claim the cumulative benefit of the extensions granted by more than one section [...] This case affirms the right of the daughter of a co-wife of a deceased woman married in one of the approved forms to succeed to the stridhan property of the latter in preference to a sapinda of her husband under the Mitakshara law. [...] In an action by the vendor to enforce the forfeiture on a default by the purchaser the Judicial Committee held that the stipulation was in the nature of a penalty from which the defendant was entitled to be relieved and in the result dismissed the vendor's claim and decreed the purchaser's gounter-claim for specific performance on payment of the purchase-money then due.