The Law Reports. Under the Superintendence and Control of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. Indian Appeals: Being Cases in the Privy Council on Appeal from the East Indies 1947-1948

Daudi Bohras situate in the village of Shadra near the town of Burhanpur in the Central Provinces and in particular the question as to the right of the present respondents Nos. [...] 1 2 and 3 the second of whom claimed to be the Dai-ul-Mutlaq. and as such the High Priest of the Daudi Bohra community to interfere with the access to and use of such property by the appellants. [...] They assert that he died suddenly on the night of the twenty-ninth Jamadil Akhar 1256 H. (1840) from poison without making any such appointment but that the learned men of the community of that time in their anxiety to avoid the disintegration of the community and to prevent its members from becoming members of the rival sect of Sulemanis gave a Fatwa (rulings) in favour of one Najmuddin to [...] In that action the second respodent was declared to be the trustee of a waqf in respect of the properties then in suit and in the present appeal the respodents following that decision do not rely on any assertion of -personal ownership by the second respondent of any of the suit properties. [...] " he clearly stated to our most respected brother the pride of -- " the Mazoons when he went to inquire about his health on the " night of his death is not that a clear and specific Nas ' ? " Of the authors of these passages Walibhan is said to be one of the two virtuous men who came to Budruddin to inquire about the succession and he was also one of the four learned men to whom the validity of