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Mahabir Prasad And Anr. vs Muhammad Mashiyatullah

High Court Of Judicature at Allahabad|27 November, 1915

JUDGMENT / ORDER

JUDGMENT
1. This appeal arises out of a suit for redemption of a mortgage. The property sought to be redeemed is a share in the village Paniyala, which along with other property was mortgaged by one Haidar Baksh who was the owner of it. He executed three mortgages, in one of which, dated the 27th of March 1864, a 9 1/2 biswa share in Paniyala was mortgaged along with shares in two other villages. On the 3rd of April 1964, he mortgaged five more biswas of this same village along with other property. On the 6th of February 1873, he executed a mortgage for Rs. 15,000 and out of the consideration for that mortgage he declared that Rs. 3,500 was to be a further charge on the property comprised in the mortgage of the 27th of March 1864. In the description of the property on which a further charge was thus placed, were mentioned 9 1/2 biswas shares in each of the villages of Anuda, Hasan Mahdud, and Halla Nagla; so that instead of mentioning Paniyala under the mortgage of 27th March 1864 which together with the other two villages was mortgaged, mention was made of Halla Nagla. The rights of the mortgagor in Paniyala have been sold by auction in execution of money-decrees, and have been purchased by the plaintiff to the suit out of which this appeal arises and by the plaintiff to the suit in the connected Appeal No. 1225 of 1914. Portions of the mortgaged property have also been purchased by the defendants Nos. 1 and 2, who now represent the mortgagees. The integrity of the mortgages has thus been severed and the plaintiffs are entitled to redeem on payment of the proportionate liability of the property purchased by them for the mortgages which exist on it The plaintiffs' contention was that the village Paniyala was only liable under the two mortgages of the 27th of March 1864 and the 3rd of April 1864 The defendants-mortgagees, however, urged that there was a further charge of Rs. 3 500 on that village under the mortgage of the 6th of February 1873. The lower Appellate Court in view of the provisions of Section 94 of the Evidence Act was of opinion that the defendants were not entitled to show that Paniyala was one the villages on Which a father charge of Rs. 3,500 was created, inasmuch as in the mortgage-deed of the 6th of February 1873 mention was made of Halla Nagla and not of Paniyala. It is clear from the terms of that document that the intention undoubtedly was to create a farther charge on the property comprised in what was called the second mortgage, namely, that of the 27th of March 1864 In that mortgage. Paniyala was clearly included and not Halla Nagla. If also appears from the mortgage-deed of the 6th of February 1873 that where the mortgagor included in that mortgage property not included in the earlier mortgages he distinctly said so. There is, therefore no room for doubt that the intention was to create a further charge on Paniyala and not on Halla Nagla. Section 94 of the Evidence Act provides that "when language used in a document is plain in itself and when it applies accurately to existing facts evidence may not be given to show that it was not meant to apply to such facts" We are of opinion that the language used in the mortgage of the 6th of February 1873 is not plain and unambiguous, as we have already pointed out. In the opening part of that document mention was made of the mortgage of the 27th of March 1864 which created a charge on Paniyala. The document of 1873 clearly purports to place a further burden of Rs. 3,500 on the property comprised in the earlier mortgage of 1864, but apparently the scribe of the document made a mistake in mentioning Halla Nagla as one of the properties included in the earlier mortgage of 1864 instead of Paniyala. This was clearly a misdescription and the case is, in our opinion, one of misdescription and mutual mistake. This being so, Section 94 of the Evidence Act does not preclude the appellant from showing what was intended to be included in the mortgage of 1873. In our judgment the plaintiffs can redeem Paniyala by payment of the proportionate liability of that village, not only, under the mortgages of the 27th of March 1864 and the 3rd of April 1864, but also under the mortgage of the 6th of February 1873 for Rs. 3,500 out of the amount secured by that mortgage. As the amount for which Paniyala is rateably liable under these mortgages has not been ascertained by the Court below, we must refer an issue to that Court to determine what is the amount of the proportionate liability of Paniyala. We accordingly refer the following issue to the Court below under Order XLI, Rule 25, of the Code of Civil Procedure:
What is the amount of the rateable liability of 14 1/2 biswas of the village Paniyala under the mortgages of the 27th of March 1864, 3rd of April 1864 and the 6th of February 1873?
2. The Court may take additional evidence, if necessary, and in arriving at its conclusion will bear in mind the observations made above.
3. On receipt of the findings, the ordinary ten days will be allowed for filing objections.
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Title

Mahabir Prasad And Anr. vs Muhammad Mashiyatullah

Court

High Court Of Judicature at Allahabad

JudgmentDate
27 November, 1915
Judges
  • P Banerjee
  • Walsh