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 May 6 1901

We find the 'Cede noted up with most of the recent cases either in the body of the book or in the addenda. [...] the judgment of Lord Penzance in the first of the two cases abovenamed:— "It is a common feature of Wills in respect of which this sort of question arises that the testator."Vol. V] THE CALCUTTA therein refers to a possible impending calamity in connexion with his Will and the question arises whether he intends to limit the operation of the Will to the time during which such calamity is imminent [...] If the language used by him can by any reasonable interpretation be construed to mean that he refers to the calamity and the period of time during which it may happen as the reason for making a Will then the Will is not conditional but if he refers to the calawity or the possible occurrence of some event as a reason for a certain disposition of his property and mixes up the diposition of the [...] Pennell's personal relations with the Bengal Government whom he accuses of attempting to bury the scandal " of the Chupra case and of " shielding subordinates." He asked why if his judgment in the Chupra case was wrong the local Government did not appeal against it and said there was the less reason for its hesitation to do so since two of the judges of the court whom he named had " a stron [...] But there are cases to show that under such circumtances the sub-consciousness is aware of the actual harlessness of the procedure and that. under circumstances in which real harm could be done or when such would wrongly seem to the subject to be possible the subject becomes rebel ' limas to the influence of the suggestion.