{"id":210038,"date":"1917-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1917-11-01T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/man-singh-vs-musammat-gaini-on-2-november-1917"},"modified":"2018-09-01T11:54:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T06:24:59","slug":"man-singh-vs-musammat-gaini-on-2-november-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/man-singh-vs-musammat-gaini-on-2-november-1917","title":{"rendered":"Man Singh vs Musammat Gaini on 2 November, 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Man Singh vs Musammat Gaini on 2 November, 1917<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 43 Ind Cas 62<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Piggott, Walsh<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. This is a reference by the Local Government under Rule 17 of the rules and orders relating to the Kumaun Division. The suit in question was brought to set aside an alienation made by the father of the minor plaintiff of certain property which was admittedly the joint ancestral property of the minor and his father. There is a concurrent finding by the Court of First Instance and by the Court of First Appeal to the effect that the alienation in question was made for legal necessity. There was an antecedent debt binding on the father, which it is the son&#8217;s pious duty to satisfy, and under these circumstances an alienation by the father, even of joint ancestral property, would be binding on the son. There was a second appeal to the Court of the Commissioner of Kumaun and there the case took an entirely different turn. The learned Commissioner has not dissented from the finding that the alienation in question was made for legal necessity. He has taken up a plea, which was certainly suggested in the plaint as what may be called an alternative line of attack, to the effect that the alienation was invalid because the father Sobha was suffering from leprosy. The question before the Court had nothing to do with the right of a person suffering from leprosy or similar incurable disease to inherit property: the property was the father&#8217;s and had come to him from, his ancestors. We have not been referred to any principle of Hindu Law, nor do we find that any such principle exists, under which a person who contracts the disease of leprosy is thereby disqualified from dealing with his own property or from dealing with joint family property so as to bind his sons, provided the alienation of the same is made for legal necessity. The Commissioner&#8217;s order suggests an opinion on his part that, whatever may be the general Hindu Law on the subject, there is a custom prevalent in the Kumaun Division, and binding on the parties, which disqualifies a leper from dealing with his property. He refers to a decision of one of his predecessors in the year 1887, in which a somewhat anomalous principle is laid down that a leper has only a life-interest in any property belonging to him, that he can alienate that property for his lifetime but cannot make any alienation binding upon his heirs or successors after his death. We do not find from an examination of the record that any local custom to this effect was pleaded, much less was established by evidence. The decision, therefore, seems to rest simply upon a pronouncement of the Kumaun High Court in the order of 1887, which may or may not have rested upon adequate evidence in that particular case but which cannot be regarded as laying down a proposition of law binding upon the parties concerned in any future litigation. In the course of argument before us a suggestion has been thrown out that the order of the Commissioner might be supported, not on the ground on which it proceeds, but on the strength of certain remarks made, in the concluding portion of the Commissioner&#8217;s judgment, It is there stated that this man Sobha bad left his home and was living as an outcast and leper on the banks of the Ganges. A man suffering from a virulent type of leprosy would naturally leave his home and take up his residence somewhere outside his village. It does not seem to have formed any part of the plaintiff&#8217;s case in the Courts below that Sobha had renounced the world and had, adopted the life and status of a Hindu ascetic. The fact that he executed the sale-deed in suit in satisfaction of a debt previously contracted by him shows in itself that he retained an interest in mundane affairs and did not consider himself to have renounced all his rights to his property. We do not think that the order of the Commissioner can he supported upon this or upon any other ground.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. Our answer, therefore, to this reference is that in our opinion the. Commissioner should have dismissed the second appeal preferred to his Court, and that the costs of, the entire proceedings, including this reference, should be born by the unsuccessful plaintiff. The petitioner, that is to say, the original defendant in the suit, should be allowed to charge Pleader&#8217;s fee in this Court at the rate actually certified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Man Singh vs Musammat Gaini on 2 November, 1917 Equivalent citations: 43 Ind Cas 62 Bench: Piggott, Walsh JUDGMENT 1. This is a reference by the Local Government under Rule 17 of the rules and orders relating to the Kumaun Division. 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