Court : Mumbai
Reported in : (1877)ILR2Bom19
..... in no respect an optional payment required only from those who actually wished to practise fishing, but a compulsory impost exacted from all full-grown men of the common fishing caste, in the belief apparently that if any adult males of that caste did not engage in sea-fisheries, they were rare exceptions to the general rule, and also that the number of persons of other castes who did engage in that trade was inconsiderable .....
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Reported in : (1878)ILR2Bom346
..... what we have to determine, then, is whether, in a case in which there is practically no family property to be divided, an adult hindu is entitled to maintenance from his father, who is in the enjoyment of a pension granted by government in lieu of a resumed saranjam. ..... i have, however, felt great doubts whether it is good (hindu) law to say that an adult son in an undivided hindu family, who is suffering from no disability recognized by that law, can claim a separate maintenance from his father; in premchand pepara v. ..... , whether in a united hindu family an adult son, who is suffering from no disability, can sue his father for a separate maintenance, the authority of himmatsing v. ..... the plaintiff is an adult legitimate son of the defendant, and it is found by the courts below that he has been turned out of his father's house in consequence of family quarrels arising out of his father's second marriage. .....
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Reported in : (1878)ILR2Bom624
..... 122, been the father or other adult relative who made the promise that the marriage should take place, and not the intended husband or wife.8. .....
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Reported in : (1878)ILR2Bom573
..... ' nor have we discovered in that law any ground for supposing that an adult hindu, separated in estate from his father and uncles, can, if he fall into destitution, enforce a claim for maintenance either against any one or more of them personally, or against the residue of the family estate left in .....
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Reported in : (1888)ILR12Bom625
..... in the present case, the plaintiff, though an adult at the time, was not a party to the suit or to the execution proceedings. .....
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Reported in : (1888)ILR12Bom686
..... when the assignor is an adult, that can of course be done by his own admission recorded in the suit. .....
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Reported in : (1889)ILR13Bom7
..... as regards the law of the case, there is no doubt that an infant cannot prosecute an action either in person or by solicitor, but only through an adult person known as 'the next friend of the minor. .....
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Reported in : (1889)ILR13Bom302
..... the statistics given to me prove the existence of such marriages, though they also prove a strong current of opinion and practice which will gradually restore the older and healthier system of adult marriage. .....
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Reported in : (1904)ILR27Bom186
..... the district judge has not in the present case impugned the award on the ground of any want of power in the adult members, who were managers of the defendant's family to refer the dispute with the plaintiff to arbitration. ..... it is found that the family to which these two defendants belonged consisted of themselves and their brothers, ganu and nans (defendant 1), when the reference to arbitration was made, and that ganu and nana were adult members of the family at the time. .....
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Reported in : (1904)ILR27Bom335
..... in the first of these cases, the disputed lease was executed on behalf of the minors by their mother as natural and de facto guardian and on behalf of the adult pran govind by his brother who then acted and always had acted as agent for him in connection with the property. .....
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