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 April 1 1901

The rigour of the code was however modified by the admission of ' extenuating circumstances.' The Belgian code of 1867 disCarded the theories of Beccaria and accepted these of Pellegrino Rossi who laid great stress on the reclamation of the criminal. [...] THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS.—"if I buy a horse for my wife to drive in and the animal turns out no good for that very purpose that Y bought him for is not that the basis of the measure of damages I am entitled to and not merely for the breach of warranty that the horse was quiet in single harness." There was no reasonable ground on which the verdict of the jury could be supported the jury had not [...] This was an application by one of the daughters of the deceased for a grant of letters of adminitration to the estate and effects of the deceased. [...] In the course of the evidence for the Defendant it was proved that at his annaprasan ceremony the family astrologer who was present wrote out his astral name in the horoscope prepared by him that the horoscope was thereupon made over to the father of the Defendant who took it into the inner apartments and made it over to the mother saying this is the horoscope of our son." It was further p [...] On the 10th February 1898 the Appellate Court reversed the decree of the 1st Court and remanded the case and on the 6th June 1898 the suit was dismissed.