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 8 1901

We find from the pages of the same journal that the committee of the National Prison Association United States have recommended the establishment of prison laboratories and the employment of specialists for the scientific study of the prison population with refeence to the practical needs of discipline instruction and training of prisoners. [...] IN RECOMMENDING THE INTRODUCTION OF TRI provisions of the Eirst Offenders Act in Egypt in preference to the suggestion of Lord Cromer far the wider application of the birch Sir Reymond West iu an article in the Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation points out the advantages of the law which though it now forms a part of our Criminal Code is to our great regret seldom acted upon [...] The correctness of the decision of the Settlement Officer in the case of each in the proceedings taken under the 2nd clause of sec. [...] The Munsif dismissed both the suits holding that the questions of the settlement of fair and equitable rent and the status of the Plaintiffs had been decided by the Settlement Officer that his decisions had the force of decrees and as they had become final the matters were res judicata between the parties. [...] 104 of the Bengal Tenancy Act in consequence of applications made by the landlord for a settlement of the rent the decisions of the Settlement Officer had the effect of decrees and everthing necessary to be decided for the purpose of arriving at the decisions in those cases must be held to have been decided in them : That it being necessary to determine the status of the tenants in order to dec