
Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the judicial committee and the Lords of Her Majesty2019;s most honourable Privy Council on Appeal from the supreme and sudder dewanny courts
1869
Summary
THE following Memorandum with reference to the removal of Colonial Judges having been drawn up by Order of the Lord President in pursuance of a request from the Earl Granville the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department after having been submitted to and confirmed by the Lords of the Council was presented and laid on the table of the House of Lords. [...] The Lord President in answer to the question submitted to this department and to the Lords of the Judicial Committee by direction of Earl Granville has caused the following Memorandum to be prpared for the purpose of explaining the views taken by their Lordships on the subject of the removal of Colonial Judges as far as they may be gathered from reported cases and from the experience of the [...] Steer and Eevinge two of the Judges of the High Court and by a decree of that Court bearing date the 28th of April 1863 the Court affirmed the first portion of the decree of the Zillah Court both as to the legal character of the tenure of the estate and its ividents impressed on the Raj and also as to the 1867. [...] The decree also declared that the Raj was one of those Princpalities upon which was impressed the law of pri mogeniture involving the succession of one member only of the family to the entirety of the estate as an inherent condition essential to its existence and that the evidence in the suit had proved a family custom or usage to exist in favour of the same course of succession ; that the [...] The Respondent also instituted a cross appeal against those portions of the decree which related to the non-admission of the verbal appoinment of the Respondent ; the nuncupative Will of the late Maharajah ; the refusal of his costs ; the making the costs of the Plaintiff and of the Defendant Ongur Pertab payable by him and also against the allowance of Rs.