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In Re: Bomanji Burjorji Shroff

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1877)ILR1Bom547

..... indian succession act x of 1865, section 50, for i think the introduction of the word 'personal' into the last-mentioned act is not material in such a case as the present. the question: what is a sufficient acknowledgment by a testator ..... bomanji at the office of messrs. ralli brothers. it did not, however, appear clearly that instructions for this statement had been given by manickbai. the provisions of the english wills act (1. vic., cap. 26, section 9), with regard to the acknowledgment by the testator of his signature to his will, are substantially the same as those of the ..... green, j.1. the question for decision is whether, under the 3rd clause of section 50 of the indian succession act x of 1865, the two attesting witnesses received from the deceased a personal acknowledgment of his signature to the paper here propounded as the last will of bomanji burjorji shroff. .....

Hemendro Coomar Mullick Son of Rooplall Mullick Vs. Rajendrolall Moons ...

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1878)ILR3Cal354

..... question which is to be determined by the english law of contract, except so far as the same may have been modified by the indian contract act. i think it impossible to deny that, under the english law, this suit would have been barred, and notwithstanding the great authority ..... . 200.7. it was much pressed upon us in the argument by mr. hill, that the effect of section 43 of the indian contract act is to enable a promisee to sue one or more of his joint promisors severally in two or more suits; or, in other ..... the law, all difficulty about the further question which has been argued disappears. mr. hill contended that section 43 of the contract act did away with the rule that the second suit was barred in such a case as this. but that section does no more ..... objecting that his co-contractors ought to have been sued with him.8. it is true that the rule upon which i am acting may possibly lead to some hardship in cases when one or more of several co-contractors is out of the jurisdiction, and the .....

In Re: the Matter of the Sarawak and Hindustan Banking and Trading Com ...

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1879)ILR4Cal704

..... himself, but by an officer over whom he has no control.3. it is probable that the legislature, when they passed the act, did not foresee this difficulty. section 141 corresponds with the 124th section of the english joint stock companies' act of 1862 (25 and 26 vict., c. 89), which contains the same provision as to the three weeks' notice.4. ..... by the english act, the notice is to be given in the manner in which notices of appeal are ordinarily given according to the practice, of the court appealed from. by the indian act of 1866, the notices ..... he was bound to do by merely lodging his appeal within three days from the date of the order.2. now it is perfectly true that the 141st section of act x of 1866 does present some difficulty in this respect, because the appellant's right of appeal under that section is made to depend upon a notice being given, .....

The Secretary of State for India in Council Vs. Augustus John Arathoon

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1882)ILR5Mad173

..... be a judge in his own cause. this rule certainly applies in the case of persons constituted judges without the option of the parties. in banger v. the great western railway company 5 h.l. 72 the principle was held not to apply to avoid the award of a referee, to whom, though necessarily interested in the result, the parties had ..... shephard's commentary on the indian contract act as an authority for the rule of the english law that the event upon which the promise is to be performed must not be one within the control of the promisor, has been doubted in aulton v. atkins 18 c.b. 249.10. in grafton v. the eastern counties railway company 8 ex. 699 the ..... a judgment in regard to the suitability of the wood. had this been so, the case would have to be decided on the principle of hotham v. the east india company, in which the defendants wilfully prevented the fulfilment of the condition. in the present case there is no allegation that, the disapproval was other than a genuine disapproval of .....

Sims Vs. Everhardt

Court : US Supreme Court

..... . in view of these considerations, our conclusion is that mrs. sims, the complainant, having been a feme covert until 1870 and never having done, during her coverture, any act to confirm the deed which she made during her infancy, could effectively disaffirm it in 1870, when she became a free agent, and that her notice of disaffirmance and her ..... have referred, says that if an infant who is also a married woman makes an instrument voidable because of her infancy, the disability of coverture enables her to postpone the act of avoidance to a reasonable time after the coverture is ended. sec. 516. in support of this he refers to dodd v. benthal, 4 heisk. (tenn.) 601, and ..... with the same consequences? if a wife cannot contract about any land which is not her separate property, how can she, without the concurrence of her husband, do any act the effect of which is to transfer the title to land from another to herself? we are not, however, called upon by the exigencies of this case to decide .....

Unity Vs. Burrage

Court : US Supreme Court

..... discussion. there was in existence, by virtue of the legislation of the state of illinois, a corporation known as the indiana and illinois central railway company. by a perfectly valid and constitutional act, certain townships, among them the plaintiff in error, were authorized, upon a vote of a majority of their legal voters, to subscribe stock ..... consideration not only had reference to subscriptions of stock and the issue of bonds in aid of the indiana and illinois railway company, but also of three other railroad companies, and the act therefore contained more than one subject, and the latter subject was not expressed in the title. in such a case, the provisions of ..... thereof. the last section extends the time for the completion of the railroad of the said indiana and illinois central railway company to july 1, 1875. on april 16, 1869, the legislature passed an act entitled "an act to fund and provide for paying the railroad debts of counties, page 103 u. s. 451 townships, cities, and .....

In Re: the Indian Companies' Act, 1866 and of the Calcutta Jute Mills ...

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1880)ILR5Cal888

..... indian companies' act give such a power. that is limited to companies registered under the act.4. the question depends upon section 213. that is, the first section of part viii, the title of which is 'application of act to unregistered companies.' the section is, so far as it is material, as follows:subject as hereinafter mentioned, any partnership, association or company, except railway companies incorporated by act of parliament or act ..... of the governor-general of india in council, consisting of more than seven members, and not registered under this act, and hereinafter included under the term unregistered company, may be wound up under this act, and all the provisions of this act with respect to winding up shall apply to .....

Mackillican Vs. the Compagnie Des Messageries Maritimes De France

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1881)ILR6Cal227

..... we think that, as the contract was made in calcutta, the defendants were bound by the provisions of s. 151 of the indian contract act.(vii)-we do not consider it necessary to answer this question.6. the judgment, therefore, that has been entered for the plaintiff ..... consider it necessary to answer this question.(iv)-we are of opinion that none of the conditions have the effect of relieving the company from the consequences of their own negligence, the existence of which has been found in the case submitted for our opinion.(v)- ..... back of the passage-ticket.2. although he may not understand french, he was a man of business contracting with a french company, whose tickets he knew very well were written in the french language. he had ample time and means to get the ticket ..... the plaintiff's own fault if he did not make himself acquainted with them. we think that the principle of parker v. the south-eastern railway go. (l. r., i. c. p. d., 618; s. c. on app., 2 id., 416), and the observations of .....

Smelting Company Vs. Kemp

Court : US Supreme Court

..... was incompetent to acquire title to any real estate in colorado, except such as might be necessary for the transaction of its business as a smelting and refining company, and that the premises in controversy were not necessary for that purpose, but were acquired for speculation. the plaintiff filed a replication denying its incompetency to hold ..... warrior should be offered for sale by an officer of the land department unless specifically directed by the secretary of the treasury, and declared that if the indian abandoned the reserved land it should become forfeited to the united states, a patent was issued for the land, which did not show that the secretary had ..... upon matters within their exclusive jurisdiction, unassailable except by a direct proceeding for its correction or annulment. the execution and record of the patent are the final acts of the officers of the government for the transfer of its title, and as they can be lawfully performed only after certain steps have been taken, that .....

Bibee Solomon Vs. Abdool Azeez and anr.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : (1881)ILR6Cal687

..... 200 national bank shares, worth rs. 20,000 ; 10 bombay bank shares, worth rs; 6,000; 20 paris municipal debentures, worth rs. 2,000 ; and 25 east indian railway shares, worth rs. 7,500. and he also says: 'at the time of moheeoodeen's death the balance of the account was against us. it was a pretty large ..... to arrive at the conclusion that the executors of moheeoodeen had actual knowledge of the securities with doorga churn law. but with respect to the two lacs of company's paper, i have no materials to form an opinion beyond the suspiciously sudden discovery immediately after the sanction of the compromise.68. now a transaction very similar ..... the court to sanction the compromise that statement was brought prominently forward as the basis of the proposed arrangement;3rd.-that not only bibee rubbia, but the court, acted upon the assumption that this statement of the value of moheeoodeen's property was substantially correct; and.4th.-that the executors might and ought to have known, and .....