The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday December 19 1904

It is commonly understood that the duty of the Government is to prove sanity in all cases as a matter of evidence ; but its burden of going forward with the proof is lightened by the presumption that sanity is the normal state of the human being. [...] It rests upon the proposition that the act done had back of it a criminal intent and that such intent was the characteristic of a sane mind If the mind was incapable of knowing the character of the act done it was wanting in all element essential to make the act a crime. [...] With reference to the first two kinds of grants his Lordship held that in the absence of a provision to the effect that the interest in the land should cease when the services are no longer required the grants cannot be resumable at will. [...] The Court was not prepared to extend the 'application of the doctrine of the illegality of marriage brokerage contracts as it has been established in the reported decisions. [...] The attorney submitted that the prim( ice of the Court was to make the grant upon the verified petition of the applicant with the duly authenticated power attached thereto.