The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday September 8 1919

The rrra tter has been jointly investigated by the Director of Surveys Bengal arid the Registrar of the High Court on the Original Side and the modification proposed by them in the boundaries of the town of Calcutta which are embodied in the Schedule annexed to the Bill have the effect of slightly varying the existing thrifts and thus affecting the jurisdiction of the High Court. [...] Amongst the appreciative acknowledgments cotained in it we find the following with regard to the review of the Indian Legislation : “ The present writer may be permitted to exrre%his personal gratitude to the secretary to the Goy ernment of India in the Legislative Department` for having relieved him from the task of summarising the legislation of British India. [...] this principle held that by reason of.the gift the property teased to be part of the estate of the donor and there is thus no escape from the position that the heir did not succeed to it by right of inheritance." The ratio decidendi of the case clearly is that the raiyat has the power of disposition over his occupancy hold ing. [...] to the transferee and that right is not defeasible 'In view of the change of position brought at the instance of an hody except the landlord about by the Full Bench case it is difficult to who does not consent to the transfer. [...] Fletcher J. observed that " the 'case observed that " the decision of the Full principles laid down by the Full Bench on *Which tench case of Dayamayi v. Ananda Mohan Roy transkrs inter vivos for values of a holding are is an authority for the prRposition that in cases supported do not apply to the case of a bequest of transfers for -Value the title passes from the by will." His lordship pr