History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.649

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⁷⁴⁶ The first proposition is followed by modern decisions in British India. Vide *Lachman Das v. Khunnu* 19 All. 26 (F. B.) which holds that the mortgagee of a man who had mortgaged joint ancestral property can enforce his mortgage against the grandson of the mortgagor for the realization of *interest* as well as principal, *Ladu Narain v. Gobardhan* 4 Patna 478, *Masit Ullah v. Damodar Prasad* 48 All. 518 (P. C.) where the Privy Council held that the great-grandson is liable for the debts of his great-grandfather as much as he is liable for those of his father or grandfather. In all these cases passages from the smṛtis of Yāj., Nār. and Bṛ. and from the Mit. and the Vīramitrodaya are quoted and discussed.