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1908 DIGILAW 229 (MAD)

Mullath Tarwed Karnavan and Manager Katungi Velloti v. Mullath Unni Nambi alias Kun. Humi Velloti

1908-12-18

MILLER, PINHEY

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JUDGMENT 1. In our opinion the Subordinate Judge finds that Exhibit I under which the appellants claim their Anubhavam right is a forged document. He does not say that he deems himself bound by the decision of this Court on that point, but as we understand his judgment, he accepts the reasons of the learned Judges in that suit, and concurring with them pronounces Exhibit I and Exhibit II which depends on it to be unreliable. His judgment might have been better expressed but we have no doubt that that is what he meant. 2. The appellants thus have not proved an Anubhavam tenure under the Zamorin and they have for a long series of years paid rent to the Para Nambi. From this it may be inferred, as the Subordinate Judge infers, that they were tenants under the stani and it cannot be presumed that they held on a permanent tenure, because a stani cannot be presumed to have attempted to create a tenure which he ordinarily would have no power to create. The transactions between the Stani Rama Nambi and the Zamorin could not amount to more than an alienation of the property by the Stani to the Zamorin and this could not bind succeeding Stanis; nor could the acknowledgment by Rama Nambi. of an Anubhavam tenure in the Zamorins tenants binds the succeeding Stanis. The Stains after Rama Nambi can repudiate the alienation and disregard the Anubhavam, and the Stani has sued accordingly within 12 years of Rama Nambis death to eject the alleged Anubhavam tenants. The possession of the tenants was not, during Rama Nambis life, adverse to the Jenmi whether the Jenmi was Rama Nambi or the Zamorin. But Rama Nambi collected the rent and there is no evidence that he paid it to the Zamorin and it is probable that the arrangement was merely a fraud upon the Stanis successors and that there was no intention of really creating or acknowledging a title in the Zamorin in which case the appellants remained the tenants of the Para Nambi. However that be, there being no valid Anubhavam, the plaintiff is entitled to recover and the appeal must be dismissed with costs.