The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday July 8 1907

On submission of the report of the inquiry the question of the granting of sanction to prosecute witnesses in a pending case orin a judicial inquiry was submitted for the consideration of a Full Bench of the Bombay High Court composed of Westropp C. J. mad Lloyd Melville Green and Kemball JJ. [...] The great achievement of the Romans in the field of law according to the learned writer lies not in the fact that they were—as in truth they were—the first to prefect a completed system of private law—but in the fact that they were the first people who ever arrived at a correct conception of the nature of. [...] This is no less than the re-annexation of the English law on to the great d of principle of which the Roman law is the bisU and the framework. [...] The subjects which comprise Hindu Law Mahomedan Law the Penal Code the Criminal Procedure Code the Civil Procedure Code the Law of Mortgage the Specific Relief Act Evidence Act the Succession Contract Registration Stamp Court Fees and the Transfer of Property Acts amongst others are dealt with in the form of questions and answers. [...] Held—The title vests in a person on the date of the confirmation of the sale and not from the date of the sale.