The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Noted of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Short Notes of Important Decisions of other High Courts in India Monday September 4 1933

On the 14th of August last the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council completed a hundred years of its existence and Lord Macmillan has chosen the occasion to cotribute a special article to The Times in which he reviews the history of that august body. [...] As a Court of Appeal though formally an advisory body the Judicial Committee hear appeals from the Dominions the Colonies the Indian Empire the Protectorates and Mandated Territories the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and all foreign jurisditions of the King. [...] elssivi have summoned the co-operation of the prfession to the establishment of a Council that would assume control of the profession in the real sense of the term. [...] The proviso to r. 1 of Or.44 of the Civil Procedure Code is mandatory and only cotemplates a perusal of the application the judgment and the decree and nothing else; and unless in the opinion of the Court the decree is contrary to law or otherwise errneous or unjust the Court is bound to dimiss the application. [...] K was assessed to icome-tax on the income of the family icluding the allowance to J. The assessment was set aside and the assessee was served with a notice to file a return of his income for the purpose of re-assessment: Held (JAILAL and MONROE JJ.)—That the expression " escaped " as used in sec.