1914 (4) TMI 2

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....ly been heard upon that point only by five of the other Judges of the Court. The point of law stated is whether the decision of the majority in the case of Manjhoori Bibi v. Akel Mahumed 17 C.W.N. 889 has been affected by the judgment of the Privy Council in the case of Soni Ram v. Kanhaiya Lal ( I.L.R. 1913) All. 227 L.R. 40 IndAp 74. The actual decision of the majority in Manjhoori Bibi's Case 17 C.W.N. 889. was that the special rule of limitation extended to under-raiyats by the amendment in 1908 of the 3rd Article in the 3rd Schedule of the Bengal Tenancy Act did not apply, where the dispossession was in 1898 and the suit for recovery of possession was instituted on the 25th of August, 1908. 2. The judgment of the Privy Council i....

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....nder consideration in Manjhoori Bibi's Case 17 C.W.N. 889 and as it is the construction and effect of a different Act that was under consideration, the Privy Council judgment cannot be regarded as a direct authority on the Act not before it. 3. On the contrary the essential conditions of the two cases are so distinct that in our opinion it cannot be said that the earlier decision is, in relation to the circumstances of this case, affected by the judgment of the Privy Council. It is an established axiom of construction that though procedure may be regulated by the Act for the time being in force, still the intention to take away a vested right without compensation or any saving, is not to be imputed to the Legislature unless it be exp....