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 February 22 1909

OtlR CONTEMPORARY1 THE Law Times IN NOTICING at some length our comments on the case of Chetti v. Chilli observes that the Indian Courts would recognise the validity of the marriage and of the decree of the English Court. [...] The facts are that the Plaintiff let out a bungalow to the Defendant knowing that the bungalow/ would be used by the Defendant as a brothel on condition that if the rent reserved be not paid at the due dates the lessor would be etitled to re-enter upon the premises and the lessee would be bound to vacate the same. [...] And this seems also to be the opinion of the learned Judge who decided the case although he dismissed the Plaintiff's suit but this he did on the ground that according to the frame of the suit the Plaintiff could not make out his title except through the medium of the imoral transaction. [...] The natural conclusion that they draw is that the control of the husband is required only as a corrective to the wife's weaker intellect and that this corrective may be furnished in the absence of the husband by the sanction of the guardian for the time being. [...] The lower Appellate Court went througli the evdence of the Plaintiff and came to the conclusion that the Plaintiff's witnesses could not be relied on that the measurement papers filed by the Plaintiff were of no value and that the ex fiarte decrees which were found to be the only evidence left were no evidence against the Defendant without proof of execution.