Court : Mumbai
Reported in : (1907)9BOMLR125
..... i find on the evidence that the transactions mentioned in the plaint were transactions entered into by gordhandass on behalf of his family firm as the sole adult member of the firm and as manager of the family.20. ..... he and his father were then the only adult male members of the family and there is no reason suggested why if they chose to enter upon a new business they should not do so. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Mumbai
Reported in : (1907)9BOMLR274
..... the hindu family business from this point of view becomes a mahomedan 'societas ' and therefore the touch stone can no longer be said to be necessity but is the ordinary requirements of the business carried on (it may be) by adult members or by a credited agent who has the power to draw etc. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Kolkata
Reported in : (1907)ILR34Cal787
..... the result of this finding is this that even assuming, (though it is unnecessary to and i therefore do not decide it) that service was in fact effected on ashutosh bose as a person believed to be an adult male member of the plaintiff's family residing with him, he was not in fact such and therefore there has been no service of the notice under section 10 of the act.12. ..... here ashutosh bose the plaintiff's relation on whom the notice is said to have been left was admittedly about 16 and in my opinion an adult within the meaning of the section, having attained the. ..... 'adult' in section 31 of the public demands recovery act does not mean as suggested a person who has attained majority within the meaning of the majority act, but a person of such an age as to be capable of and responsible for the .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Kolkata
Reported in : 1Ind.Cas.573
..... . in my opinion the agreement was not void for want of consideration: equity leans towards the maintenance of family arrangements and the ekrarnamah in suit appears to one to have been a fair settlement of the dispute between the adult plaintiff and the defendants and has been acted upon ..... according to a letter in the hand-writing of the plaintiff (i refer to the adult plaintiff the testator's widow) a charge was even made that she had poisoned her husband. ..... . i would, accordingly, dismiss this appeal with costs to be paid by the adult appellant.coxe, j.37 ..... . i refer to the adult plaintiff only as the subordinate judge has not allowed her to prosecute the suit on behalf of the minors .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Allahabad
Reported in : (1908)ILR30All105
..... 52 of 1895 after the 3rd of february 1904, when musammat mulo was removed from guardianship and ram narain, the plaintiff, was declared an adult and was appointed guardian of the other plaintiffs by order of the district judge of bareilly. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Mumbai
Reported in : (1908)10BOMLR279
..... ' the reason of the rule that when the joint family originally comprises an adult, a guardian of the property cannot be appointed, (in our opinion) involves the conclusion that as soon as there is an adult co-parcener any guardianship of the property previously constituted either ceases or is liable to cease, for then there is no longer any property in respect of which there can be a guardian. ..... arrived at the age of majority, the order appointing the collector guardian of the property ceased to be operative, and the court was bound to hand over the joint family property to the co-parcener who had become an adult, although the other co-parcener was a minor. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Mumbai
Reported in : (1908)10BOMLR668
..... it appeared on the evidence that there is a firm of the name of raghunathji tarachand which belongs to a hindu family of which narotamdas is an adult member and that he signed the two notes with the name of the firm. ..... narotamdas is the manager because he is the sole adult proprietor, that is the person in whom power vests, and because he takes an active part in the management. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Kolkata
Reported in : 4Ind.Cas.495
..... subsequently, the lands in the occupation of the respondents were measured and found to be 17 khadas odd and, on the basis that this was the correct area, the qabuliyat in 1302 was executed by the two adult sons of farajuddin, his widows on their own behalf and as guardians of the minor sons of farajuddin of whom abdul rashid mollah was one. ..... ' it is quite clear that that case was fully litigated in the rent court in which two of the defendants were the adult sons of farajuddin and who were jointly interested with abdul rashid mollah in resisting the claim. ..... four of the executants were adults of whom two were the widows of farajuddin. ..... the other executants were either adults, or do not sue to set it aside. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Allahabad
Reported in : (1909)ILR31All21
..... at pages 20 and 21 of the judgment, however, he refer to two pre-emption suits brought by the defendants against the plaintiffs and their uncle dwarka, these suits were defended by the plaintiffs as adults, and the learned judge says that the plaintiffs ought to have brought (o the notice of the court that they were minors, and later on, at page 21, he says. ..... by dwarka, and that the plaintiffs were under his influence and ready to do whatever he told them to do, and i think it quite impossible to hold that the plaintiffs were guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation merely because when sued as adults they neglected to inform the court of their minority. ..... (these are the suits the plaintiffs defended as adults. ..... they also defended a suit or suits as adult. .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Mumbai
Reported in : 2Ind.Cas.874
..... now explain the various words which appear in the course of this case and must appear in the judgment:imam means spiritual head or supreme pontiff.murshed means spiritual head.jamat is the congregation of all the adult male members of the khoja community.jamatkhana is their meeting-hall or guildhall.mukhi is the treasurer or steward.kamadia is the accountant.varas is the vazir .....
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