Judgement

In the first appeal in this case, the question then raised, the right of the Appellant to seise an estate [@ page M.I.A. 530] in his collectorate as an escheat to the Government for want of an heir to the person last possessed, their Lordships decided in favour of the general right of the Crown to take by escheat the estate in question, subject, or not subject, to a trust, and remitted the case to the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut for further hearing, with the expression of their opinion, that there was not sufficient evidence in the case to admit of a satisfactory decision on the subject of the trust and the claims under it.

The suit accordingly was again brought before the Sudder Dewanny Adawlut on the 20th of October, 1800, and, on the 22nd of the same month, that Court delivered judgment, whereby, after stating that the Court had ascertained from the parties that they were not in a position to come to an arrangement in accordance with their Lordships, suggestions, but wished the suit to proceed, and that the Court " had not found it necessary towards their pronouncing upon the merits of the suit to call for the additional evidence which their Lordships had indicated as appar