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...., who died leaving a widow, Venkamma, and four daughters, Janikamma, Bhagamma, Narasamma, and Ramayamma. The lands passed to his widow who survived her daughters. Bhagamma and Ramayamma had died without issue. Janikamma and Narasamma had left male issue, who succeeded on their grandmother's death. The children of Narasamma then living were a son, Chinna Narasinga Rau, and a daughter, Chatti Ch....
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....raph 13, and note. The payment was regularly made by Narasinga Rau during his life. His widow, to whom his estate has descended, has refused to continue the payment, and the appellant has sued for a declaration of her right to recover it and for arrears. The Munsif decreed the claim: the Lower Appellate Court reversed the Munsif's decree and dismissed the claim, accepting the plea that the dee....
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.... during the term of her natural life. It purports to be a sanad and is attested by witnesses. It recites as a motive for the grant that the appellant asked her brother to give her something every year out of the produce of Singamvalasa land inherited from their mother's mother. I see no reason to doubt that there was no consideration other than natural love, and that the transaction was at its....
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....A solemn and binding promise in this form, equivalent to a declaration of trust, is not unknown to the Hindu Law. A corrody, it is said in Dayabhaga, Chapter II, paragraph 13, signifies what is fixed in this form, "I will give that in every month of Kartiki." The Sanscrit term is "Nibanda," and it is explained by the Commentator, Srikrishna, as signifying anything which has bee....