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 September 19 1910

t...- perty is small and the selacquisitions large and the expenditure of the ancestral property for the maintenance of the family is prorred it ceases to affect the self-acquisition with the character of ancestral property. [...] On the death of the father the indigent daughter succeeded to an occupancy holding in preference to the rich daughter before the operation of the Agra Teancy Act came into force; on the death of the indigent daughter after the Tenancy Act came into operation the rich daughter was held entitled to succeed in preference to the indigent daughter's son. [...] A suit by a lender for recovery of money was held to be maintainable although the borrower was a miller at the time when money was lent where the money was lent for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the borrower's sister's marrii-ge. [...] L. R. 152 ; or the case of Abdul Kadir V. The Collector of Tanna which is an important case on the question of practice inasmuch as in that case fresh evidence was taken in second appeal ; or the case of Agutsangji v. Gag/i at p. 126 which seems to be one of the earliest decisions on the question whether the exclusive enjoyment by Hindu cparceners of certain portions of the estate is to be he [...] The Sudivisional Officer in effect held that the extension of the provisions of the section on the 22nd December 19o9 operated retrospa& yeelv^to ivalidate all transfers of holdira or parts of holding since the 1st January 1903 and that only bona fide transfers of a prior date were (if not otherwise invalid) saved by the proviso to the section.