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 July 1 1940

R. v. Baskerville was a case of an unnatural offence and the only direct evidence of the commission of the acts chared was the evidence of the boys themselves who on their own statements were accoplices in the crime." (See the statement of facts in the report at page 658). [...] That being the case the reference by the Lord Chief Justice in the first paragraph of his judgment to " the testimony of the boys who were called for the ' prosecution ' at the trial and were accomplices in the crime " is not a statement of their legal position qua prosecutors but a statement of fact. [...] The head-note in the first case runs thus : Upon a trial of an indictment of rape or other kindred offence againtt women or girls the fact that a complaint was made by the prosecutrix shortly after the alleged occurrence and the particulars of such complaint may so far as they relate to the charge against the prisoner be given in evidence on the part of the prosecutrix not as being evidence of [...] In the second case which was one of idecent assault on a girl below thirteen years of age the question was whether a statement made by the girl explaining her failure to keep an appointment and implicating the accused was admissible and it was held "That the evidence was admissible not as evidence of the truth of the charge alleged but as corroborating the credibility of the girl and as evi [...] 179 of the Bihar Tenancy Act is that it is a permission to landlords and tenants in the case of a creation of a permanent tenure in a permnently settled area to contract out of the Act and that whereas the general law creaed by the Bengal Tenancy Act as applicable to the relationship of landlord and tenant will apply to a permanent mokarari lease the parties are at liberty to make a speci