The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday April 24 1939

Under the decision of the majority the term ". Civil Court' in these sections as well does not include the High Court and the result is that while the Boards will be bound to treat the decree of an inferior Court as final in respect of the amount of the debt they will be free to diregard altogether a decree of the High Court and re-determine for themselves the amount of the debt already deter [...] The learned Judge holds that in granting bail the Court has no power to impose conditions other than that of due attendance at Court when required and if it does impose any such condition breach thereof will not entail the penalty of forfeiture of the bail bond either in the case of the accused or of the surety. [...] To get to the tofloor at the end of the day up a long flight of stairs and to scan the List in the insufficient light is an ordeal from which members of the profession should be spared. [...] The question was rferred to a Full Bench and the question was whether money advanced to the father in a joint Hindu family in pursuance of an agrement to create a mortgage as and when rquired by the lender will constitute an antcedent debt so as to make the mortgage (when it came to be executed) binding even on the shares of the sons of the borrower ": Held (by the Full Bench : LEACH [...] The utility of the hand is undoubtedly diminished by the loss of use of a finger and it is conceivable that in some cases the injury to a finger only may rsult in the loss of the use of the hand or the arm; but ordinarily where the injury is cofined to one limb or member only it.