{"id":126321,"date":"1920-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1920-01-21T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/amirthammal-vs-madalakaram-alias-ramalinga-on-22-january-1920"},"modified":"2017-12-04T05:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T23:34:06","slug":"amirthammal-vs-madalakaram-alias-ramalinga-on-22-january-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/amirthammal-vs-madalakaram-alias-ramalinga-on-22-january-1920","title":{"rendered":"Amirthammal vs Madalakaram Alias Ramalinga &#8230; on 22 January, 1920"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Amirthammal vs Madalakaram Alias Ramalinga &#8230; on 22 January, 1920<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 57 Ind Cas 184, (1920) 38 MLJ 503<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Wallis<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Wallis, C.J.<\/p>\n<p>1. Following the decision in Kulwanta v. Mahabier Prasad (1888) I.L.R. 11  All. 16 (F.B.). and Ref. case 19 of 1911 we hold that the bond must be stamped both under the Court Fees Act and under Article 40 of Schedule I of the Stamp Act, as it comes within the definition of a mortgage in Section 2(5) of the Indian Stamp Act, and Article 15 is therefore inapplicable. In Ref. case No. 9 of 1908 the the point that the bond in question was a mortgage within the meaning of the definition does not appear to have been taken. In re The District Munsif of Tiruvallur (1911) I.L.R. 37 Mad. 17 the bond, which was given by a judgment-debtor and two sureties does not appear to have been a mortgage bond and consequently came within Article 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Amirthammal vs Madalakaram Alias Ramalinga &#8230; on 22 January, 1920 Equivalent citations: 57 Ind Cas 184, (1920) 38 MLJ 503 Author: Wallis JUDGMENT Wallis, C.J. 1. Following the decision in Kulwanta v. Mahabier Prasad (1888) I.L.R. 11 All. 16 (F.B.). and Ref. case 19 of 1911 we hold that the bond must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amirthammal vs Madalakaram Alias Ramalinga ... on 22 January, 1920 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/amirthammal-vs-madalakaram-alias-ramalinga-on-22-january-1920\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amirthammal vs Madalakaram Alias Ramalinga ... on 22 January, 1920 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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