dubbed as bonafide purchasers for value, because, on seeing the ancient documents, they ought to have made enquiries and found out as to whether ... Those documents could rightly be termed as ancient documents as well as anti litem motem documents; which emerged at a time when this dispute
Ramanna Amannappa Masare (Since ... vs Bhanudas Dagadu Patange And Ors on 21 December, 2016
Author
Wakf Board of Dargah also rely on
these documents as well as three comparatively recent documents, which are the
Government Memoranda/correspondence between the Secretaries ... contemporaneous circumstances and the contextual events of the period when
the ancient documents came into existence (may be by oral evidence or by other
documents
Court to
presume that the handwriting and the signature in any ancient document are
the handwriting and signatures of the persons by who they were ... Evidence Act
provides that the handwriting and signatures in an ancient document, aged
thirty years and more, shall be presumed to belong to those
duly authorized
thereto by the Central Government]:
Provided that such document is substantially in
the form and purports to be executed in the
manner directed ... this appeal. They
read thus:-
“8. Exhibit A1 is an ancient document in terms of
Section 90 of the Evidence Act and the presumption
produce annually, in conformity to the understated schedule, founded on the ancient usage and computation, one morah, seven parahs, nine adowlies, and two seers ... REGISTER OF TITLE DEEDS AND SPECIAL PROVISIONS IN FAVOUR OF ANCIENT DOCUMENTS; AND OF THE GRANT OF COPIES OF REGISTERED DEEDS.
Section VI- Clause
caste column. That is
how subsequent documents revealed that the entries are Hindu Mahar.
If some documents of 1930 to 1950 are relied and termed ... Mahar
appears in the caste column. These are also old and ancient
documents. The Committee could not have therefore indulged in the
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appeal. K.V.Subbiah Mudaliar after entering appearance, produced ancient documents in proof of his right of fishery and contended that the 1st Respondent
based. His opinion may be based on the study of some ancient documents; it may also be based on the personal inquiry conducted
contained in Exs.A1 and A6 respectively are also ancient documents within the meaning of Section 68 of the Indian Evidence Act. This
