The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday September 18 1899

Those deciding the validity of the adoption of an only son and the invalidity of the adoption of a mother’s sister’s son by one of the regenerate classes have already. [...] the question of the power of a husband to select one out of several wives to join in adoption and the right of inheritance of such adoptive mother to the adopted son to the exclusion of other and even senior widows.. [...] But when we remember the bold flourish with which witnesses were to be called and documents were to be produced to overwhelm the prisoner with guilt aAd when we recollect the suicide of Colonel Henry the flight of Esterhazy the suicide of Du Clam and sttbh incidents together with the admitted forgeries of the very documents which were going to crush the traitor Jew we are bound to doubt whet [...] In such letter the Rani called upon the addressee'to procure also a house in which the family of the late Kali Pershad had been permitted to reside and which &hinged to the late Raja should be vacated and surrendered to the Rani and the titldeeds thereof which stood in the name of the late Kali Pershad delivered to her. [...] Gazette of the 1 19th January 1891 Part I _pages 45 and 46 and in the Assam Gazette of the 20th idem Part I I I page 80 and to the list of subjects for the examination of candidates for Mukhtarship published in the alcutta Gazette of the 8th August 1888 Part I pages 719 and 720 and in the Assam Gazette of the 18th ideas. Part III page 342 are published for general: 'information.