Wijesekera Et Al. V. Perera

Present: Hutchinson C.J. and Grenier J.   Feb.3,1911

WIJESEKERA et al. v. PERERA.

322- D. C. Colombo, 30,890.

Public Servants' Liabilities Ordinance, No. 2 of 1899, s. 3-Agreement to give dowry-Is it " security " ?

An agreement in writing to give a specified sum by way of dowry is not a security within the meaning of section 3, subsection (c), of " The Public Servants' Liabilities Ordinance."

The word " security " must be read as if it were ejusdum generis with the other documents mentioned in section 3, sub-section (c).

THE facts are set out in the judgment of Hutchinson C.J.

Allan Drieberg, for the appellant.-The agreement sued upon is not a security within the meaning of " The Public Servants' Liabilities Ordinance." The context shows that the word " security " applies to documents of the nature of those expressly mentioned in the sub-section-promissory notes, bills of exchange, bonds, &c. The real object of sub-section (c) is to prevent an evasion of subsections (a) and (b). A security, speaking generally, " is anything that makes the money more assured in its payment or more readily recoverable" (Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, p.

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