The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday June 21 1937

The reason for passing such an extraordinary measure was as the Reader explained a political one: the doubtful security of the newly established throne of the Tudors required unity and stability and one of the methods which Henry VIII devised for Anglicising the Welsh people was to extirpate the Welsh language. [...] The limit of artificiality is reached in proceedings on the Original Side of High Courts where very often the Judge counsel parties and witnesses are all Indian the last two lacking the necessary knowledge of English---and yet the proceedings are coducted in the foreign language with the aid of interpreters. [...] \Vhen one member of a joint Hindu family (Mitakshara) is adjudicated insolvent and his property vests in the Official Assignee the share of the insolvent is in the hands of the 011icial Assignee not as a joint family property but as separate property available for the benefit of the persona creditors of the insolvent. [...] On the annulment of the adjudication on the ground that the creditors have been paid in full the property reverts to the insolvent under sec. [...] (iii) That the suit by the judgment-debtor was maintainable to recover the money in the hands of the Defendant as money receied by him to the use of the Plaintiff.