{"id":48306,"date":"1895-11-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1895-11-15T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/queen-empress-vs-agha-muhammad-yusuf-on-16-november-1895"},"modified":"2015-03-09T17:15:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T11:45:49","slug":"queen-empress-vs-agha-muhammad-yusuf-on-16-november-1895","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/queen-empress-vs-agha-muhammad-yusuf-on-16-november-1895","title":{"rendered":"Queen-Empress vs Agha Muhammad Yusuf on 16 November, 1895"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Queen-Empress vs Agha Muhammad Yusuf on 16 November, 1895<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1896) ILR 18 All 88<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: J Edge, Kt., Burkitt<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p> John Edge, Kt., C.J. and Burkitt, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. This case has been referred to us by the Magistrate of the district of Fatehpur, owing to the decision in Prosonno Kumar Patra v. Udoy Sant I.L.R. 22 Cal. 669. The facts of the present case are that one Ram Adhin was in debt to the accused. The accused proceeded to compel liquidation of the debt by taking away from Ram Adhin&#8217;s. house in his absence, and without Ram Adhin&#8217;s consent, a cart and four bullocks belonging to Ram Adhin. He intended to hold them apparently until the debt was paid, as it was not proved or suggested that the accused intended permanently to deprive Ram Adhin of the property. This case is governed by the same principle as that of the Queen-Empress v. Sumeshar Rai, Weekly Notes, 1888, p. 96. In our opinion the accused was properly convicted of theft. We are unable to agree with the decision of the High Court of Calcutta to which we have referred. We prefer to abide by the view of the law which has been accepted in these Provinces and which we think is correct.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. We see no reason for interfering. The record will be returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Queen-Empress vs Agha Muhammad Yusuf on 16 November, 1895 Equivalent citations: (1896) ILR 18 All 88 Bench: J Edge, Kt., Burkitt JUDGMENT John Edge, Kt., C.J. and Burkitt, J. 1. This case has been referred to us by the Magistrate of the district of Fatehpur, owing to the decision in Prosonno Kumar [&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-48306","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 v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Queen-Empress vs Agha Muhammad Yusuf on 16 November, 1895 - 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\/queen-empress-vs-agha-muhammad-yusuf-on-16-november-1895\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Queen-Empress vs Agha Muhammad Yusuf on 16 November, 1895 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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