{"id":268924,"date":"1935-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1935-04-16T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mahabir-prasad-vs-raghunandan-lal-on-17-april-1935"},"modified":"2017-09-16T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T08:08:20","slug":"mahabir-prasad-vs-raghunandan-lal-on-17-april-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mahabir-prasad-vs-raghunandan-lal-on-17-april-1935","title":{"rendered":"Mahabir Prasad vs Raghunandan Lal on 17 April, 1935"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Mahabir Prasad vs Raghunandan Lal on 17 April, 1935<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1935 All 848, 158 Ind Cas 623<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Bennet<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1\">ORDER<\/p>\n<p>Bennet, J.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">1. This is an application in revision by a person who calls himself a defendant. This however is admittedly a mistake for &#8220;decree-holder.&#8221; The decree-holder attached certain utensils belonging to the judgment-debtor and the judgment-debtor objected that these were exempt under Section 60(1)(b) as the tools of an artisan. The lower Court allowed the objection on the ground that a sweetmeat vendor was an artisan when he prepared the sweetmeats himself personally. I understand this finding means that these utensils are used by the judgment-debtor for preparing sweets. There is therefore no question of an abandonment by the judgment-debtor of his occupation. Learned Counsel relied merely on the statement that he was now employed in service at a shop and formerly had been a shop-keeper. He is apparently employed for the purpose of making sweets. The next argument was that such a person would not be an artisan and learned Counsel relied on a ruling in <a href=\"\/doc\/267448\/\" id=\"a_1\">Emperor v. Haji Shaik Mahomed Shustari<\/a> (1908) 32 Bom. 10. That ruling laid down that certain persons who were engaged in driving engines were artisans for the purpose of the Indian Emigration. Act. The ruling has no bearing whatever on the present case. There are two rulings which are similar, one quoted by the lower Court, Bindeshri v. Banshi Lal 1932 All 344 in which it was held that the utensils of a soap-maker are exempt as being the tools of an artisan. Similarly in Laxman Mahsu v. Narhari Dadasa 1924 Bom. 294, it has been held that articles for making jaggery sugar are exempted. I consider that an artisan is not merely a person who is engaged in mechanical employment but a person who works in the production of some commodity and that whatever he uses for the production of the commodity may be considered as his tools. For these reasons I consider the lower Court was correct and I dismiss this application with costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Mahabir Prasad vs Raghunandan Lal on 17 April, 1935 Equivalent citations: AIR 1935 All 848, 158 Ind Cas 623 Author: Bennet ORDER Bennet, J. 1. This is an application in revision by a person who calls himself a defendant. This however is admittedly a mistake for &#8220;decree-holder.&#8221; The decree-holder attached certain utensils [&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":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allahabad-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mahabir Prasad vs Raghunandan Lal on 17 April, 1935 - 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\/mahabir-prasad-vs-raghunandan-lal-on-17-april-1935\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mahabir Prasad vs Raghunandan Lal on 17 April, 1935 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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