Krishna Bhatta vs Narayana Achary And Anr. on 12 November, 1948
I read this clause to mean that there is provision for a cash rent of Rs. 44 and a lent in kind consisting of 50 coconuts and two Kalsiges of cashewnuts. No doubt the price of the cashewnuts prevailing at the date of the execution of the mulgeni chit is also mentioned. But it could not have been in the contemplation of the parties that the lessor was precluded from claiming more than five annas as representing the value of two Kalsiges of cashewnuts. The lessee is not given the option of either delivering two Kalsiges of cashewnuts or of paying five annas in lieu thereof. A case dealing with the language very similar to this is reported in Soodamani Pattar v. Somasundara Mudaliar (1948) 4 M.L.J.201. In that case the material words of the lease were as follows: