Privy Council Court July 1929 Judgments
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Ma Pwa May Vs. Srmma Chettyar
Court: Privy Council
Decided on: Jul-25-1929
Atkin, J. [1] This is an appeal from a decree of the High Court of Judicature at Rangoon. The plaintiffs arc the mortgagees under a mortgage dated March 13, 1924, by which Maung Po Saving and his wife Ma Twe mortgaged to the plaintiffs for Rs. 20,000 four oil wells in the Yenangaung oil field. The consideration for the mortgage is alleged to be a sum of Rs. 1.3,764 the balance of principal and interest on three promissory notes dated June 25, 1921, November 25, 1921, and May 30, 1923, for the sums of Rs. 7,700, Rs. 1,700, and Rs. 2,600 respectively, and made by tile mortgagors in favour of the first named mortgagee and her husband. The second-named mortgagee is Ma Pwa May s son. His wife is the niece of Maung Po Saung, one of the mortgagors. The further consideration, making up the total sum of Rs. 20,000, is alleged to be a present advance of Rs. 6,236 in cash. The mortgage was registered on March 14, 1924-There is no doubt that at the date of this mortgage the mortgagors were heavily...
Eugene Rerthiaume Vs. Dame Anne-marie Yvonne Dastous
Court: Privy Council
Decided on: Jul-16-1929
VISCOUNT DUNEDIN: In 1913 the respondent, a French Canadian of the Roman Catholic faith, being then a girl 19 years of age who had just graduated from a convent in a small town in Montreal, went on a trip to Europe with her father. She there met the appellant, a member of a Quebec family and also of the Roman Catholic faith, who had been living in Paris for several years. He proposed marriage to her, and she accepted. The appellant asked the respondent to make the necessary arrangements, and she called on the cure of the parish where her fiance had been residing and where she was then temporarily residing. The cure informed her that there were certain civil formalities to be gone through and that he would celebrate the marriage. She asked her fiance to attend to the civil formalities and he took her to the British Consulate where certain papers were signed and a certificate issued which was given to her fiance. After that the parties proceeded to the Church, the certificate was handed ...
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