The Calcutta Weekly Notes September 23 1929

Translating this into modern terms we may say that the duty of the Court is to keep the rules of law in harmony with the enlightened common sense of the nation. [...] The direct legal problem involved in the eases was was it in accordance with justice equity and good conscience that the declaration of disSolution of marriage Should he made by the Court in a case where the only party interested in objecting to the dclaration did not object? [...] Th right of a family to adopt a different Ithool of Hindu law prevailing in the terrtory to which the family migrated was aknowledged by implication but on the basis of the validity of a family usage. [...] The modern Hindu jurist moored as he is to a hundred and one medieval instittions in his daily life will readily submit to the British Judges' recognition of the right of the family to discard its personal law and adopt a different personal law as a consquence of adoption by the family of a direent religion but he will not concede that right to the individual and surely not to an indivi [...] After the ovehauling of 1923 the Code has been further.'enelirded repeatedly within the last three Years and the first concern of a reliable al-Reit:illy must be to place before the solession the ultimate result of these ate-iiral changee.