ACTING HEAD ASSISTANT COLLECTOR, TRICHINOPOLY ; WITH NOTES. Madras: PRINTED BY VEST AND COMPANY, 5, 6, 7 & 8, MOUNT ROAD. 1887. C+ ΤΟ THE HONORABLE P. P. HUTCHINS, B.L., MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF MADRAS. THIS VOLUME IS (By kind Permission) VERY RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. |Y OBJECT in publishing this book is to place within the reach of the Judges and the Practitioners of India the decisions of all the High Courts in the country on the Law of Limitation, arranged under their appropriate Sections and Articles. Wherever there was a conflict in the decisions of the Courts upon any point, I have enumerated them, as I have done in my Registration Act, with notes, bearing in mind the direction of each High Court to its subordinate tribunals to follow its own decisions, notwithstanding the decisions of the other High Courts to the contrary. With a view to facilitate reference to the rulings without putting readers to the necessity of referring to the Law Reports for information, I have stated briefly the facts of cases, many as abstracts and a few as extracts, and added any important observations made by Judges on questions of construction and application. To render the volume a book of reference complete in itself, I have inserted as foot-notes sections of the Civil Procedure Code and provisions of other Acts to which reference has been made in some of the sections and Articles of the Limitation Act. The amendments proposed by Bill No. 23 of 1886, even if it becomes law, will in no way detract from the value of this publication, for they consist mainly in the repeal of Articles 171, 171-a and 172-b of the second schedule, and the proposed alterations will be found noted in their appropriate places. This book would have been published at an earlier date had it not been for the untimely and lamented death, on the 5th of January, 1887, in my residence, at Madras, of my younger brother, C. Subbaroya Iyer, B.A., B.L., for several years one of the Judges of the Sudder Court of Cochin Circar. Referring to his death, the Dewan of the State says:-"My grief is shared by all his friends in these parts, and almost all who knew him deplore his death. In him, the Circar has lost a valued officer, and I have lost a sincere friend." My thanks are due to my brother, Mr. C. Mahadava Iyer, B.A., B.L., a Vakil of the Madras High Court, for his having, in addition to his professional work, undertaken to correct the proof sheets, and for a few valuable suggestions as to the general arrangement of the contents of the book. MADRAS, March, 1887. C. R. |