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For Deft – No 2. Defendant’s Answer.
allotted to this Defdt one fourth only of such property as unjust and oppressive and fraudulently obtained against the Defdt as aforesaid and that she was therefore entitled to resist the execution thereof. And this Defedt further ansg says that she admits it to have been contrary to the established custom of Mahomedans in similar situations with this Defdt at the time of the decease of her said Husband to absent herself from the family house of her said deceased Husband and that she did thereby incur a very severe disgrace upon herself and her family, But this Defdt insists that she was absolutely forced to leave the family House of the said Shabaz Beg Khan, in the manner herein before mentioned, and to seek refuge at the Monument of Shah Azum, the said Cauzee and Muftees and the said Complt Bahader Beg Khan having first expelled this Defdt from, and then refused to allow her
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