The Law Reports ... Indian Appeals: Being Cases in the Privy Council on Appeal from the East Indies ..., Volumen 7

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Página 207 - Exception may be taken to the use of "why" in a sense different from that in which it is used in the lines immediately preceding and following, but this objection would prove too much, as it would condemn the undoubtedly expletive use of " why " in line 68, where also as in line 65 " why " is not followed by a comma in the Folio.
Página 147 - Let the childless widow, preserving unsullied the bed of her lord, and abiding with her venerable protector, enjoy with moderation the property until her death. After her let the heirs take it.
Página 141 - ... 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...
Página 105 - And it is one thing for the court to effectuate the intention of the parties to the extent to which they may have, even imperfectly, expressed themselves, and another to add to the instrument all such covenants as, upon a full consideration, the court may deem fitting for completing the intentions of the parties, but which they, either purposely or unintentionally, have omitted.
Página 171 - No process of execution shall issue from any Court not established by Royal Charter to enforce any judgment decree or order of such Court unless some proceeding shall have been taken to enforce such judgment decree or order, or to keep the same in force, within three years next preceding the application for such execution.
Página 124 - Women have no business with the texts of the Veda; thus is the law fully settled : having, therefore, no evidence of law, and no knowledge of expiatory texts, sinful women must be as foul as falsehood itself ; and this is a fixed rule.
Página 191 - ... years from the death of the persons from whom the property alleged to be joint is said to have descended, or on whose estate the maintenance is alleged to be a charge...
Página 67 - An entry in any public or other official book, register, or record 2, stating a fact in issue or relevant fact, and made by a public servant in the discharge of his official duty, or by any other person in performance of a duty specially enjoined by the law of the country in which such book, register, or record is kept, is itself a relevant fact 3.
Página 84 - ... gold will produce £203. Here, then, is interest at the rate of 9 per cent per annum on the investment, and a gain of £45 on £158, or about 28 \ per cent on redemption, supposing the bonds to be paid at maturity. Only 50 per cent of the gross receipts has been consumed in the working expenses of this road, whereas 60 to 70 per cent is the ordinary...
Página 105 - ... that, having expressed some, they have expressed all, the conditions by which they intend to be bound under that instrument. It is possible that each party to the present instrument may have contracted on the supposition that the business would in fact be carried on, and the service in fact continued, during the three years, and yet neither party might have been willing to bind...

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