The Calcutta Weekly Notes Federal Reports 1943-44 To be Cited as [C.W.N. 1944 F.R.] Monday October 30th 1944

36 (2) (a) of the Act the decree is to iv re-opened only to the extent necessary to substitute the method of accounting sanctioned by the Act for the calclation on which the original decree was passed and the parties are not relegated to their rights and liabilities on the original cause of ation. [...] Where the provisions of the United Provinces Teancy Act 1939 were challenged 'as being ultra vires the Provincial Legislature and it appeared that the litigation involved not only a question RS to the interpretation of the Constitution Act but broader questions regarding the nature and extent of the rights secured to Tulle:Oars of Oudh by the Oudh Settlement and the extent of the inunurity the [...] 491 of the Criminal Pr 'cedure Cede the validity of the rule under which el e a pnlieant wes being detained annenred to have been argued at the hearing of the Rule as the only point end a point of law without anything being filed by the Crown setting fern their obletions or reasons for the detention and on an' anneal from the order dischareing the Rule the Federal Court held the particular p [...] The effect of both the Regulation and Pargraph 8 of the Order one applying to the tranferred areas and the other to the rest of the Madras Presidency is that the pre-existing laws continue to operate as before subject to the rule of construction enacted by the Regulation and by Paragraph 8 of the Order in Council respectively. [...] Where the trial Judge had rejected the testimony of the prosecution witnesses and wrote in substance a judgment of acquittal but yet convicted some of the accused persons by relying on portions of the evidence of a witness whom he had otherwise found a liar and the High Court upheld the convictions on taking a more favourable view of the prosecution evidence: Held—That the correct approach to the