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1778. Sittings. [Tuesday] Feb. 10.

the right of the Plaintiff.
In this Cause it was proved to be the Practice of the Calcutta Committee when a Person desired a New Pottah as a Purchaser, either to have the bill of sale made in the Cutcherry by the Purchaser and the Seller, or if the Bill of Sale was made before, then the holder of the former Pottah, was call’d on to acknowledge his Bill of Sale in the Cutcherry, and if he acknowledges his Bill of Sale, then the Pottah is made out.

Impey said and I assented to it: that it was a very regular and laudable practice: that it tended to make titles clear: that a Pottah being understood to be necessary to compleat a title, we should always require to see a Pottah: that it resembled a title by Copy of Court Roll: that if a Man had a right to have a Pottah, and on demand they would not grant it, we would by bill compel the Company to grant a Pottah.

Newman, for the Defendant in the cause said, The Defendant had a bill of Sale for three thousand Rupees from the Plaintiff: to this it was said on the other side, that the Bill of Sale was sign’d by the Seller while he was an Infant under the Age
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