The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday March 28 1904

139 in which the evidence of bad character or reputation was held inadmissible for the pupose of proving the commission of an offence of belonging to a gang of persons associated for the purpose of habitually committing theft when the character of the accused was not in fact in issue. [...] N. 346) where the acquittal of one of several co-accused who alone was proceeded against was held to enure to the benefit of all the principle of the decision being further extended in Chandra Kumar v. The Emperor (i C. W. N. 176) to a case where the offence was compounded as regards some of the accused. [...] —[To keep the peace] —Where the Magistrate found that the opposite party was the aggressor and was trying his best to disturb the peaceful possession of the party bound down it was held that the finding did not justify the order (King-Emperor v. Basiruddin 7 C. W. N. 746). [...] clv of drawing up proceedings prior to The issue of notice is only to inform the parties of the grounds on which the Magistrate is satisfied of the existence of a dispute leading to a breach of the peace. [...] I t professes to explain the meaning of the phrase " parties concerned in the dispute " and deals with the questions of the necesity of fresh proceedings upon the addition of parties of the effect of non-joinder of parties and of multfariousness of proceedings.