JUDGMENT

Page, J. - This case raises an issue of deep and general interest to the Hindu Community, viz., whether a shebait is entitled to transfer the rights and duties which appertain to his office.

2. On the 19th April 1867 Raja Sir Radha Kanto Deb died. He was an erudite Sanskrit scholar, and a personage of culture and distinction. He left surviving him three sons and numerous other relations of whom the following is a pedigree:

                        RAJA RADHA KANTO DEB BAHADUR, K.C.S.I.,                                       (dead)                                          |              -------------------------------------------------------             |                            |                           |    (Kumar) Mahendra         Raja Rajendra Narayan (Kumar)     (Kumar) Debendra Narayan,   Narayan x Kristo Ramani,  (left one eon and four daughters)     (dead.)          (dead.)                   (dead.)                          |             |                            |            ------------------------------         -----------------------          |           |                              |        |                       |         |   Brojendra Narayan,