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446.)

Meer Khan cross examined

should we sacrifice our Honour? Shuold we not kill a man that would attempt such a thing?
Previous to the Inventory being taken the Plaintiff did not appoint any Vakeel, the Cazy Saady required her to appoint one, and the Plaintiff refused, when she perservered in her refusal and the defendant Cazy Saady insisted violently upon her consenting to it, then her friends advised her to send the seal to him, that he might do as he pleased.
The defendants asked me to Witness a Paper produced by the defendant Gholaum Makhdoom, I refused, saying that he had plundered the house and why should I witness it, but they used many Persuasions sayig that it was the Custom, it did not signify, that the Plaintiff was a Woman without understanding.