{"id":27700,"date":"1918-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1918-02-19T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ponnuswami-pillay-vs-singaram-pillay-on-20-february-1918"},"modified":"2014-08-29T14:59:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T09:29:35","slug":"ponnuswami-pillay-vs-singaram-pillay-on-20-february-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ponnuswami-pillay-vs-singaram-pillay-on-20-february-1918","title":{"rendered":"Ponnuswami Pillay vs Singaram Pillay on 20 February, 1918"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Ponnuswami Pillay vs Singaram Pillay on 20 February, 1918<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1918) ILR 41 Mad 731<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Ayling<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Ayling, S Ayyar<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Ayling, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. Appellant in this case takes the preliminary Ayling, J. ground that the judgment cannot be supported in view of the provisions of Section 165 of the Indian Evidence Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The suit was brought under Section 77 of the Registration Act to enforce registration of a will which both the Sub-Registrar and District Registrar had declined to register. The Subordinate Judge says (paragraph 4 of his judgment):\n<\/p>\n<p> The parties filed the evidence adduced before the registering authorities as evidence in this case by mutual consent. None of them wanted any further evidence to be adduced in this Court. They were content to argue the case on the evidence adduced before the registering authorities.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. The evidence in question on a consideration of which the case was decided included the statements of nine witnesses for plaintiff and eight witnesses for defendant recorded by the Sub-Registrar. These statements could only become relevant evidence in the present case, if the conditions prescribed by Section 33 of the Indian Evidence Act were found by the Subordinate Judge to exist. There is nothing to even suggest and it cannot be contended that the Subordinate Judge applied his mind to the question and decided (for instance) that the presence of the witnesses could not be obtained without un reasonable delay and expense; his judgment shows that he proceeded solely on the ground of the consent of parties. That is to say, the statements recorded by the Sub-Registrar were not relevant under Section 33 of the Indian Evidence Act; and the learned vakil for respondent is unable to suggest any other section under which they would be relevant. But Section 165 of the Indian Evidence Act lays down that the judgment must be based upon facts declared by this Act, to be relevant and duly proved, and the consent of parties cannot take the place of a declaration of the Evidence Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. Our attention has been drawn to a decision of this Court in Sri Raja Prakasaravanim Garu v. Venkata Rao (1915) I.L.R., 38 Mad., 160, in which it might appear that the consent of parties was held to be sufficient. But the attention of the learned Judges does not seem to have been drawn to the stringent provisions of Section 165 of the Indian Evidence Act above quoted; and with all respect we think we are justified in declining to follow their decision.\n<\/p>\n<p>5. We must, therefore, set aside the decree and judgment of the lower Court and direct that the suit be restored to file and disposed of according to law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Ponnuswami Pillay vs Singaram Pillay on 20 February, 1918 Equivalent citations: (1918) ILR 41 Mad 731 Author: Ayling Bench: Ayling, S Ayyar JUDGMENT Ayling, J. 1. Appellant in this case takes the preliminary Ayling, J. ground that the judgment cannot be supported in view of the provisions of Section 165 of the [&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-27700","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>Ponnuswami Pillay vs Singaram Pillay on 20 February, 1918 - 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\/ponnuswami-pillay-vs-singaram-pillay-on-20-february-1918\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ponnuswami Pillay vs Singaram Pillay on 20 February, 1918 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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