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 16 1923

Under the present Act III of 1872 Indians may contract 11 civil marrage but it can lin availed of by a limited setion of the pule; because of the fact that the parties to the marriage have to make a declration that “ neither of them professes the Christian or the Jovish or the Hindu or the Mahomedan or the Parsi or the Buddhist or the Sikh or the Jaffna religioit” The result has been t [...] 300; for in asusing the value of the holding it may be consideed to be in khan possession of the raiyat as the under-raiyat has only a temporary interest ; whereas the under-raiyati as it is' not otranferable at all would fetch a very small price for any sulease which the under-raiyat may create in favour of another: But imagine for a moment the glaring change that happens in the pri [...] The quetion 7in -which the decision of the Board was requirek#as whether or not the ionocent sons of a' person: convicted of murder should be allowed_ to succeed to the murdered man's property. [...] the Bombay High Coutt for the constiteition of a Will The applicants well tWO of the Respondents whoasked for leave in nidet that they might place before the Cot* a.conetreetion which had been befog tived by the High Court and which it was against the interests of the Appellant to uhold. [...] The Board gave leave to the applicants to be joined as co-Appellant% on paying the costs of the application.