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 March 2 1925

The legislature in enmerating the powers of the Court of Appeal had before its mind only a certain class of orders and in the very nature of things that enumeration cannot be found complete or ehaustive when the Court is called on to deal with orders M a different kind orders not in the contemplation of the legislature when it wasdefining the powers of a Court of Appeal. [...] 6 r. 15 of the Civil Prcedure Code which lays down that (1) save as otherwise provided by any law for the time being in force every pleading shall be verified at the foot by the party or by one of the parties pleading or by some other person proved to the satisfaction of the Court to be acquainted with the facts of the case ; (2s) the person verfying shall specify by reference 'to the num [...] In view of the departmental instructions issued by the Inspector-General of Registrtion a great difficulty might possibly arise in cases of presentation by minor claimants for registration of documents executed in their favour as the registering officers are expected to follow the instruction rather than the itention of the law. [...] The writer has endeavoured to tackle a knotty point of the Registration Law which not unoften arises in the presentation of docments for registration There is an obvious conflict between the view taken by the Burma High Court in 33 J. C. p. 33 and that taken by the Legal Remembrancer of Bengal and the fact that although an amendment of the Act was made since the decision of the Burma High Co [...] We endorse fully the view of Sir Dinsha E. Wacha that the " publication of this book at a time when the Indian Mercatile Mhrine Bill is to be placed on the anvil of the Indian Legislative Assembly is most opportune." Every page of the book is full of useful facts and information and there is no doubt they will not only be of assistance to the members when the Bill will be discussed in theIndia