The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes of Notes 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 June 17 1940

The Act puports only to consolidate and clarify the provisions of Muslim law relating to suits for dissolution of marriage by vmmen married under Muslim law "; and neither under the general Muslim law nor under the language of the Act is marriage autmatically dissolved on the happening of any of the events enumerated in section. [...] The value of such relief is not the value of the husband to the wife but the value to her of emancipation from tutelage to an obnoxious husband; in other words the test is not how good the husband is but how bad he has become. [...] An interim order imposing such prohibition can only precede the declaration which is to come at the end of the suit; and it is quite obvious that at the end of the suit there cannot be a prohibition against doing something during the time that the suit is pending. [...] TO THE EDITUts uALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES." SIR I beg to invite your kind attention to the practical difficulty experienced by the lawyers as well as the litigants since the passing of the Muslim Dissolution of Marrages Act in connection with the court-fees payable in a suit for dissolution of marriage under the said Act. [...] By a subsequent application he raised the point that the Court had no jurisdiction to entertain the suit and the District Judge allowed the demurrer and dismissed the Plaintiff's claim: Held (BROOMFIELD and SEN JJ.) —That the failure to comply with the condition in Or.