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 April 9 1923

The question of the validity of the marriage thus came to turn upon circumitaires otter than the franc alleged. [...] the Maratha casie that the latter having died shortly after givlig birth to the Plaintiff she was brought up by her putativi father in his own house along with his legitmate children wore Bania dress and was recognised by the people of the caste as a Bania girl that the marriage with Defendant a Modh dbania was performed according to the ceremonies of the caste and at the marrage feast [...] itstice Kajiji took the very simple mad common sense view that the Plaintiff having been recognised as a Bania girl by the people of the caste at the time of the marriage the marriage was valid recording to Hindu law. [...].As an instance of the risk of the underain-4► it may be suggested that the under-raiyat will live in daily fear of his under-raiyati being annulled by the landlord of the ra4iat when the latter after pocketing the 'salmi. [...] The book is written by a judicial officer of experience and standing and purports to be a. commentary " embodying the conclusions of the latest case-law and malkidg up at the same time.the deficiency in the Punjab references." The commentaries are bri8f and the references are far too scan* for the purpdses of the general practitioner and far too summary and condensed for litudents.