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Ram Sundar Saha – Appellant
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Secretary of State for India in Council – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Caspersz, J. - The subject of this litigation is a mehal, or certain landed property, called mehal noabad taraf Joy Narain Ghosal situated in. the district of Chittagong. Noabad, means, literally, newly cultivated land; but, in the district of Chittagong, it has acquired a peculiar significance; for there it means all lands not measured in the original measurement of 1126 Maghi corresponding with 1764 A.D. So, also, the word "taraf" which implies a permanently settled estate with reference to the Permanent Settlement of Lord Cornwallis means, in Chittagong, an estate measured, in 1126 Maghi (1764 A.D.) and afterwards permanently settled under the Regulations of 1793. Joy Narain Ghosal, the name appearing in the expression noabad taraf Joy Narain Ghosal, was the original owner of the property in the Eighteenth Century. The history of this mehal may be gathered from Vol. II, pp. 156 to 162 of the Reports of Select Cases determined in the Sudder Dewany Adawlut-the judgment of that Court, bearing date the 30th August 1815, having been passed in a suit against Government instituted by certain members of the family of the said Joy Narain Ghosal,-and our attention has been called
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