{"id":77206,"date":"1888-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1888-04-11T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/joshi-kalidas-vs-koli-dada-abhesang-on-12-april-1888"},"modified":"2019-03-21T08:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T02:58:35","slug":"joshi-kalidas-vs-koli-dada-abhesang-on-12-april-1888","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/joshi-kalidas-vs-koli-dada-abhesang-on-12-april-1888","title":{"rendered":"Joshi Kalidas vs Koli Dada Abhesang on 12 April, 1888"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Bombay High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Joshi Kalidas vs Koli Dada Abhesang on 12 April, 1888<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1888) ILR 12 Bom 555<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: C Sargent<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: C Sargent, N Haridas<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Charles Sargent, C.J.<\/p>\n<p>1. We think the Subordinate Judge was right in holding that the stipulation, by which on default of payment of one instalment double the entire amount of the debt was to become at once payable, was in the nature of a penalty. The mere acceleration of payment of the debt would not have that effect, but the enhancing the amount of the debt (in this case amounting to more than 100 per cent.) ought, we think, to be so regarded, as shown by the remarks of the Court in Sterne v. Beck 1 De G., J. &amp; S., p. 595 and The Protector Endowment Loan and Annuity Company v. Grice 5 Q.B. Div., p. 592.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bombay High Court Joshi Kalidas vs Koli Dada Abhesang on 12 April, 1888 Equivalent citations: (1888) ILR 12 Bom 555 Author: C Sargent Bench: C Sargent, N Haridas JUDGMENT Charles Sargent, C.J. 1. We think the Subordinate Judge was right in holding that the stipulation, by which on default of payment of one instalment double [&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":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bombay-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>Joshi Kalidas vs Koli Dada Abhesang on 12 April, 1888 - 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\/joshi-kalidas-vs-koli-dada-abhesang-on-12-april-1888\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joshi Kalidas vs Koli Dada Abhesang on 12 April, 1888 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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