The Calcutta Weekly 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 March 6 1922

The Court (Tudball and Sulaiman XI.) diposed of the case against the Shirks on the ground that the claim would be inconsistent with the maintenance of the paramount idea that the right of the public on a public road is a right of passage. [...] It is not merely a question of the-minority being rquired to hold the most powerful sentiment t ttat can operate on the human mind under leash for the mere convenience of the majority ; for clearly if the majority of the population of Anrangabad had been Shiahs the Courts would have felt constrained to deliver the Same opiniou in order to uphold the parmount right of the public to have th [...] 996 is an instance in point of the latter class where though the sale was under the Civil Procedure Code the rent decree was obtained by the sole landlord for the entire rent of the tenure and the execution proceeding shows that the tenure was prceeded against and the whole tenure was atually sold. [...] Nevertheless " the law as to the situation of the reversionary heirs " as observed by their Lordships of the Privy Council in Jannki Animal v. Naralgan Aiyar (1) " is in substance quite clear; there is as stated no vesting at the death of the husband's death ; and it follows that the questions of who is the nearest reversionary heir or what is the class of reversionary liens fall to be settle [...] Against each - item of the syllabus reference to the number of the paragraph of the annotation is given which enables one to find out at once the relvant passages end the case-law on the subject.