CITATOR INFO :
R 1978 SC1393 (6)
ACT:
Document-Hundi-Inadequately stamped--Exhibited--
Admissibility-Objection when to be raised-Courts, if can
revise or review order ... Proviso
(a), 36.
HEADNOTE:
The respondent admitted the execution of two Hundis in suit
which were tendered and marked as exhibits but denied
consideration
security of these railway receipts drew
demand drafts or hundis in
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favour of variour banks and two firms in Kanpur as payees ... Calcutta, to operate
on the account. The banks which discounted the hundis and
the drafts were the Kanpur branches of the Bank of Bikaner
security of these railway receipts drew demand drafts or hundis in favour of various banks and two firms in Kanpur as payees on a firm ... Calcutta, to operate on the account. The banks which discounted the hundis and the drafts were the Kanpur branches of the Bank of Bikaner
paid in cash by Narayandas on the date of purchase and a hundi for Rs. 500 was also given by him on that date. This ... hundi is said to have been dishonoured within a week. The defendant No. 5 is said to have repaid Rs. 125 in cash within
consideration was whether one of the
two partners is liable upon a hundi drawn by one of the
partners though the hundi was not drawn ... other partner would
be liable though on the face of it the hundi did not purport
to be on behalf of the firm. That decision
from time to time be prescribed. Suits upon bills of exchange, hundis or promissory notes or for liquidated amounts are some of the kinds
amount of the cash deposits and
to account for the cheques, hundis and drafts deposited for
collection. There were thus transactions on each side
creating
shares signed by them. The
applications were accompanied by three separate hundis
dated ... opened in his name in the books of the Company. The three
hundis were honoured on May 29, 1946. The directors of the
Company
Legislature. It has been pointed out in Aggarwal's Law of Hundis and Negotiable Instruments (1954 edition), at page 287 :
"The position