The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday April 18 1904

IN THE PROBATE AND DIVORCE DIVISION THE quer ion as to the propriety of payment to witnesses to depose in Court arose incidentally in the case of Pollard v. Pollard and the learned President Sir 173"clxxiv THE CAILOUTTA WEEKLY NOTES. [...] Where the Judge directed the jury on a charge of receiving that the fact of a stolen shirt having been found in possession of the acused two months after the dacoity was sufficient to justify a conviction for dacoity : held that there was a misdirection as the question whether the possession was recent enough was matter entirely for the jury and should not have been put to theta in the po [...] —[Reverse the finding].—Where a Magitrate convicted the accused of rioting and hurt but acquitted of theft and the Appellate Court held t hat on the facts found theft was committed and that the offence amounted to dacoity and committed the case to the Sessions it was held that the words " reverse the finding " mean reverse the finding on which the conviction is based and do not empower a [...] In Butts v. The Municipal Committee of Lahore (7 C. W. N. 82) it has been pointed out by their Lordships of the Privy Council that when a dispute is referred to arbitration the fact of the arbitrators obtaining information from counsel on matter of law through one of the parties in dispute but without the knowledge of the other party and without communcating the fact to him would not amoun [...] The widow and the mother divided the property amongst themselves and the pOrtion which fell to the mother's share after passing through the hands of her daughter and the daughter's sons was sold by the latter to a person who again made a gift of it to the Defendant.