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Dec 07 1900

Baktu Singh Vs. Kali Prasad

Court: Kolkata

Decided on: Dec-07-1900

Reported in: (1901)ILR28Cal297

Ameer Ali, J.1. This is a rule calling upon the Magistrate of the district to show cause why the case against the petitioner Baktu Singh, pending in the Court of the Honorary Magistrate of Motihari, should not be transferred for trial to Muzzaffurpore or some other district. The circumstances which gave rise to the application upon which the rule was issued are shortly these: It appears that there were disputes going on between the Bettiah Raj Estate and the tenants of one of the mehals subordinate thereto regarding the question of measurement of the land held by the tenants; the latter claiming that the measurement should be made with a rod of 19 inches to a cubit, while the Raj endeavours to measure the lands with a pole of 18 inches. The disputes are or were at the time pending before the settlement officer, and it is stated that one Mathura Prosad, a servant of the Bettiah Raj, came to the tenants and suggested that, in consideration of some bonus to be paid to him, he should bring...


Dec 05 1900

Jahar Vs. Kamini Debi (Wife of Nanda Kumar Jha)

Court: Kolkata

Decided on: Dec-05-1900

Reported in: (1901)ILR28Cal238

1. The decree sought to be executed in this case was made by the Court of the Munsif of Nawabganj, but the local jurisdiction in respect of the subject-matter of this suit appears to have been subsequently transferred, by order of the Local Government, to the Court of the Munsif of Malda. Nevertheless the decree-holder took out execution of his decree, within the time fixed by the law of limitation, in the Malda Court, and in the course of the execution, a sum of money was paid towards liquidation of that decree. A second application for execution was made in February 1899 in the same Court, but the decree-holder was referred to the Nawabganj Court, as being the Court which had passed the decree, and which was alone competent to execute it, in order that an application might be made for the transfer of the decree for execution by the Munsif of Malda. When an application for execution was made to the Munsif of Malda, on a certificate transferring the decree to him, the judgment-debtor p...


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