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 21 1914

A. closer study of the problem of crime and its punishment has led those most familiar with the subject to the conclusion that it is not the wisest course for the state or the community that they should annually spend millions of dollars in erecting and maintaining prisons whose sole purpose is to afford a place where the penalties inflicted under the law may be carried out. [...] It is of the utmost importance therefore that when the state takes away the head of a family it should see to it that from the earnings of such person while in the custody of the state there shall be paid to the dependent family at least part of such earnings. [...] The practice prevailing in the Courts in the Madras Presidency in the trial of suits is that when prima facie evidence of custody and of the date of a document purporting to be 30 years old is given the Court generally marks the document on the footing that there is sufficient evidence to justify its being marked as an exhbit at that stage. [...] 104 of that Act and of Order XXXIV of the 1st Schedule to the Civil Procedure Code which replaces the procedural sections Of the Transfer of Property Act relating to morgages. [...] Aiyangar has followed up his two volumes of compilations of the Municipal Legilation of this country by an examination and discussion in the present volume of the leading principles which ought to govern the adminitration of the powers and duties given to Muncipal bodies by the Law.