Hindoo Law: Defence of the Daya Bhaga. Notice of the Case on Prosoono Coomar Tagore's Will. Judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Examination of Such Judgment |
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Hindoo Law: Defence of the Daya Bhaga. Notice of the Case on Prosoono Coomar ... John Cochrane No preview available - 2017 |
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absolute according to Hindoo adopted alienation alluded ancestral property authority beneficial interest bequest Berkeley LIBRARY Brother Calcutta Chief Justice clause co-parcener convey Coomar Tagore create Daughter Daya Bhaga death debts deceased decision declared decree descendants devise Digest directions dispose doctrine Doorga eldest English law estate of inheritance estate tail Executors Father gift give given heirs male held Hindoo law immovable property intention intestacy Jaganatha Jimuta Vahana Joteendro Mohun Tagore Judges judgment Juttendromohun Tagore land law of Bengal legacies and annuities legatee lifetime limitations Lord Lyndhurst male issue Menu Mitacshera Moore observes opinion paid party payment perpetuity person or persons personal estate personalty Plaintiff primogeniture principle Privy Council provisions Pundits real estate real property reference Regulation remarks respective bodies resulting trust rule against perpetuities Rupees share Sir William Macnaghten Sons Sourendro succession surplus Testator's thereof Trustees or Trustee unborn undivided UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA valid vested void Widow words Yajnwalcha
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Page 135 - Signed, sealed, published, and declared by said testator, , as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at his request, in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses this day of , 18—.
Page 337 - ... for the sake of attaining uniformity, consistency, and certainty, we must apply those rules, where they are not plainly unreasonable and inconvenient, to all cases which arise; and we are not at liberty to reject them, and to abandon all analogy to them, in those to which they have not yet been...
Page 308 - So much of any law or usage now in force within the territories subject to the government of the East India Company as inflicts on any person forfeiture of rights or property or may be held in any way to impair or affect any right of inheritance, by reason of his or her renouncing, or having been excluded from the communion of any religion or being deprived of caste, shall cease to be enforced as law in ihe Courts of the East India Company, and in the Courts established by Royal Charter within the...
Page 271 - Calcutta : provided that their inheritance and succession to lands, rents and goods, and all matters of contract and dealing between party and party...
Page 6 - It is emphatically the will of the person who makes it, and is defined to be ' the legal declaration of a man's intentions which he wills to be performed after his death.
Page 327 - ... heirs male of the body and bodies of all and every such son and sons...
Page 189 - ... to the use of CHC for the term of ninety-nine years, if he shall so long live; " remainder to trustees to preserve contingent remainders; " remainder to the use of the heirs male of the body of...
Page 133 - Signed, sealed, published, declared, and delivered by the said Samuel Johnson, as, and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who, in his presence, and at his request, and also in the presence of each other, have hereto subscribed our names as witnesses. " JOHN COPLEY. "WILLIAM GIBSON.
Page 418 - ... preceding executory or contingent limitation, or is limited to take effect on a condition annexed to any preceding estate, if that preceding limitation or contingent estate never should arise or take effect, the remainder over will, nevertheless, take place; the first estate being considered only as a preceding limitation, and not as a preceding condition to give effect to the subsequent limitation.
Page 410 - The best rule of construction is that which takes the words to comprehend a subject that falls within their usual sense, unless there is something like declaration plain to the contrary...