Professional Documents
Culture Documents
~ O O H U M ~ UKHAN
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Money advanced to the guardian and agent of aa infant zemindar to pay the
arrears due to Government on account, of his z e ~ i n d a r yis recoverable in the
Mofussil Courts from the ze,mindar, although the lenders took a bond in the
English form for i t from his guardian and agent in their own names, with-
out any mention in i t of the zemindar, and sued and ohtained judgment
ngainst them. personally in the Supreme Court a t Calcutta upon the bond,
and took one o f them in execution under it.
A statute restricting courts of justice from hearing and d e t e r m ~ n i 1suits ~~
upon certain contrack not entered into w~thoutthe c o n s ~ n of t Govern~ent,
and not registered in a p a ~ ~ c u l manner,
ar does not render those cmtracts
illegal, and therefore when that statute has been repealed, such conlmcts
may be enforced in courts of justice, a l t h ~ u g hentrtred into whilst the statute
was in force.
The a ~ p ~ were ~ ~the a s~e pt r ~~e n t a t i vof~ Narain Takoor and ~ ~ n ~ r a s s e
Ghose, two m.oney-~end~rs in Calcutta, who on the 22d of March 1786, duriiig the
minority of %heres~ondent,advanced a sum of 60,300 rupees to Janikiram Sing,
his uncle, and the dewan otr manager of his zemindnry, and Sudanund Sircar, his
vakeel a t Calcutta, far the purpose of enabling them to discharge the arrears due
from his aemindary to Government;. It was proved that Narain Takooer and Bana-
rassey Ghose bought for 60,300 rupees a bill for 60,000 rupees from the house of
G u n n ~ sI)oss, a t Cnlcutta, on their house a t M o o r s l ~ e d a b ~p,~ y a b l ethirty days
after sight; that this bill w~b8j ~ n i e d ~ a t e ldelivered
y- ever to Mr. Cooper, the super-
intendent of the Khalsa or Treasury a t Calcutta, and that lie t r a n s ~ n ~ t t eitd to the
r ~d, ~ ~ c h a r gofe the arream of revenue due from the re-
c o l ~ ~ ~aot i~. ~ n a g e p o in
~ . a security for the paymenta of this [2291 sum, Narain
~ p o ~ d e n t 'zse m ~ n ~ a rAs
Takoor and Banarasse~Ghme took a band from Sudanund Sircar. The money was
not paid within the time itppointed in the bond, and on the 6th of June 1187,
Janikirarn Sing and Sudanund Sircar both entered into a joint and several bond,
in the English form, to Hr. Noble Ledlie fbr the s w n of 80,150 rupees, which in-
cluded both the former sum ~dvanced,together with interest upon it, and also other
sums alleged to have been advanced for the service o€ the zernindary, but of the
advanoe of which no proof was given in the suit.
Mr. M l i e executed the same day a declaration, that he; wa8 merely a trust* of
the sum secured by this second band for Narain T&wr and Bmasawey Ghose. No
mention was made in the latter bond (wh~chonly- was p r o d u c ~in evidence in
the oause) of the purpose for which the money was advanced, nor did the name of
the appell&nt o r his aemindary appear on iL, me money still r e m ~ n i n gunpaid,
p r o c e ~ i n g swere taken on %e latter bond a g a ~ n s tJ a n ~ k ~ r aSing
m and S u d ~ u n d
Sircar in the Supreme Court a t ~ ~ l e and u Janikirasa
~ ~ , Sing was taken ia execu-
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