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 August 13 1928

His legal contributions covered a wide range extending from the interpretation of the abstract propositions of the codified law of evidence in India to the highly complicated and puzzling problems of revenue and tenancy law of Bengal. [...] The argument of the learned Judges is that the imposing of a sentence is within the wide limits allowed by the law a matter of discretion and not a matter of proof that it is a matter within the sphere of penology not of evidence that sec. [...] The argument seems to be entirely fallacious for the Court must confine itself to the facts of the case before it whether in deciding the guilt or innocence of the accused or in assessing the sentence to be inflicted and the facts of a case means the facts which are before the Court properly i.e. [...] The work concludes with the powers functions and duties of the Court of Wards and how the ordinary incidents of law and procedure relating to minors are modified when an infant's estate is taken charge of by the Court of Wards. [...] Besides there are several Appendices in which one gets such useful things as the Report of the Select Committee and the Letters Patent with even the amendments of 1927; a comparative table of the provisions of the old Code and the new