Select Cases in Hindu Law Decided by Her Majesty's Privy Council and the Superior Courts in India: With Notes, Nide 1

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Sivu 218 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true: first, that the judgment of a Court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another Court...
Sivu 244 - I do not concur with the decision which has been referred to (x), in which it is said that " in the absence of evidence to the contrary, it must be assumed that the price received by the father became a part of the assets of the joint family.
Sivu 219 - Court: secondly, that the judgment of a court of exclusive jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is, in like manner, conclusive upon the same matter, between the same parties, coming incidentally in question in another Court, for a different purpose. But neither the judgment of a concurrent or exclusive jurisdiction is evidence, of any matter which came collaterally in question, though within their jurisdiction ; nor of any matter incidentally cognizable ; nor of any matter to be inferred by argument...
Sivu 302 - In scripture and in the code of law, as well as in popular practice, a wife is declared by the wise to be half the body of her husband, equally sharing the fruit of pure and impure acts.
Sivu 234 - And the reason is stated in the next paragraph, — ' consequently the difference is this : although he have a right by birth in his father's and in his grandfather's property, still, since he is dependent on his father in regard to the paternal estate, and since the father has a predominant interest, as it was acquired by himself, the son must acquiesce in the father's disposal of his own acquired property ; but, since both have indiscriminately a right in the grandfather's estate, the son has a...
Sivu 228 - to be entitled to the Zemindary at all, the whole estate "would for the time be vested in her, absolutely for some "purposes, though, in some respects, for a qualified interest ; "and until her death it could not be ascertained who would "be entitled to succeed. The same principle which has ''prevailed in the Courts of this country as to...
Sivu 279 - The childless widow, preserving inviolate the bed of her lord, and strictly obedient to her spiritual parents, may frugally enjoy the estate or property until she die; after her the legal heirs shall take it.
Sivu 115 - These gentlemen are usually required to speak not to facts but to opinions; and when this is the case, it is often quite surprising to see with what facility and to what an extent their views can be made to correspond with the wishes or the interests of the parties who call them.
Sivu 72 - School, explain the text away by saying, that it applies only to an adoption made in the Husband's lifetime, and is not to be taken to restrict the Widow's power to do that which the general law prescribes as beneficial to her Husband's soul.
Sivu 82 - He, whom his father, or mother with her husband's assent, gives to another as his son, provided that the donee have no issue, if the boy be of the same class and affectionately disposed, is considered as a son given, the gift being confirmed by pouring water.

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