JUDGMENT :- This judgment will dispose of a batch of 10 appeals bearing Nos. 3217, 3333, 3334, 3336, 3434, 3466, 3467, 3477, 3487 and 3493. Appeals Nos. 3466, 3467, 3477, 3487 and 3493 are of the year 1965 and the rest were instituted in the previous year 1964. They arise out of an equal number of suits which were instituted by the Custodian of the branches of Banco Nacional Ultramarino, hereinafter referred to as the B. N. U. against the various sets of defendants in the Civil Courts at Vasco da Gama, Panjim and Margao. Appeal No. 3217 of 1964 has arisen out of a suit dealt with by Shri Ataide Lobo at Panjim, the appeals Nos. 3333, 3336 and 3334 of 1964 are directed against judgments, each dated 17-7-1964, of Shri E. S. Silva, the Comarca Judge at Margao, while the rest of the 6 appeals pertain to the suits decided by Shri Justino Coelho, also the Comarca Judge at Margao. The justification for dealing with all the appeals in this common judgment is furnished by the facts that practically speaking only questions of law arise for determination in all the appeals and that those questions of law are identical. Further, the facts of all the ten cases were also of the same nature and th

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