Supreme Court · 1954 INSC 68 · Decided 20 May 1954
Vashit Narain Sharma v. Dev Chandra and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1954 INSC 68 · [1955] 1 S.C.R. 509
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 151/1954
- Decided
- 20 May 1954
- Bench
- SUDHI RANJAN DAS, GHULAM HASAN, B. JAGANNADHADAS (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 136; Representation of the People Act Section 81
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 509 of the defendants that they had discharged the hundi ; and that that clearly imported an acknowledgment of liability on the bill, and was sufficient to clothe the plaintiff with a right of action thereon. Assume that the plea of discharge of a hundi implies an acknow­ hundi. What is requisite for fixing the drawees with liability under section 32 is the acceptance by them of the instrument and not an acknowledgment of liability. As the law prescribes no particular form for acceptance, there sltould be no difficulty in construing an acknowledgment as an
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