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 January 8 1900

There were the usual conflicting decisions on questions. of fraud ; the District Judge refusing in the first instance to allow the daughter of the deceased to intervene to contest the validity of the will ; the High Court setting aside his decision and sending the matter back to him in order. [...] on the Bench with the Chief Justice and the Court was crowded with members of the Bar the VakilS the Attemeys the officers of Court and visitors. [...] His arguments for the Crown in the habeas corpus case of the Qneen v. Ameer Ie'lureataxed the energies of the late (Nsholin.Ahstey the distinguished Advocate who had been brought from Bombay to defend the accused; and that gentleman's speech was in the main and -addressed to the attempted. [...] The Recorder said in his judgment that the sole point in the case was did the Plaintiffs consent to the insertion of the.-term in Chinese being of opinion that the insertion of the clause in Chinese in question was an attempt to alter a contract already concluded and he held that the burden of provinassent to the added dense lay on the Appellants which they had failed to prove He held that [...] The Judicial Commissioner on the Defendants' appeal and a cross appeal admitted that he was bound by the finding of the lower Court that Sitaram and his widow at the time of their respective deaths were living in a state of union but held that under the joint operation of the action of the Revenue authorities in 1883 and the section in question a new estate had been created in favour of the wi