1888 (5) TMI 1

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.... Kahan Singh; and (2) Perak Singh, to whom the first appellant in 1879 made over by deed of gift the fee of her deceased husband's estate. The plaintiffs and respondents are the four nearest agnates of Kahan Singh, and the present suit was instituted by them for the purpose, inter alia, of obtaining a declaration that the widow's gift is inoperative and cannot affect their reversionary rig....

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....exclude the other respondents from obtaining a declaratory decree in this suit, which will have the effect of protecting the reversionary interests of themselves and of their lineal descendants. 2. The proceedings which followed upon the plaint in the suit referred to were these: A defence was lodged for the widow, and on the 7th October 1878 the Judicial Assistant Commissioner pronounced this or....

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....e which may be set up by the defendant, nor does it depend upon the character of the relief prayed for by the plaintiff. It refers entirely to the grounds set forth in the plaint as the cause of action, or, in other words, to the media upon which the plaintiff asks the Court to arrive at a conclusion in his favour. 4. The Judge of First Instance, the Assistant Commissioner, held that the-cause of....

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.... made a de praesenti gift of their whole interest to a third party, who is the second defendant. That of itself is a good cause of action if the appellants' right is what they allege. It is a cause of action which did not arise, and could not arise until the deed of gift was executed, and its execution followed the conclusion of the proceedings of 1878. 5. It appears to their Lordships that t....