The All India Reporter 1941 - Journal Section Containing Short Notes and Comments Original Articles Critical Notes Reviews of Books etc. Citation: (28) A.I.R. 1941 Journal

The Government of India have under consideration the question of expansion of the appellate powers of the Federal Court and investing the Court with the jurisdic- tion to hear appeals which now go to the Privy Council. [...] The appellate decisions of the Court were meant to have some degree of finality, and appeal to the Privy Council lies only with the spe- cial leave of the Federal Court or of the Privy Council. [...] The Courts in India and their Lordships of the Privy Council have, however, made exten_ Pions in this branch of Hindu, law on the question of powers of Hindu widows for making alienations of the estate in cases of necessities of the estate. [...] only for her life and that she is bound Hence the application of the rule of Hanoo- to hand over the same undestroyed to man Persaud's casels to the case of a widow the reversioners of the last male owner at as allowed by thtir Lordships of the Privy the time of her death. [...] The case of the Allalfa- bad High Court is one where a Hindu widow has alienated her husband's estate for the expenses of the bhat ceremony of the daughter of the sister of her husband.