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 January 7 1918

Forgetting that another indictment stood on the fi’s the Commissioner told the jury that they ought to know the record of the man they had acquitted and read out to them the list of previous convictions. [...] The prisoner appealed against the conviction on the ground of alleged misdirection to the jury by the &corder. [...] The placing of the mark by another person upon the Paper in his presence and by his direction is not an affititre by him of his mark to the Will within the meaning of sec. [...] It is competent to an heir of the founder in whom the trusteeship has vested owing to the failure of the line of original trustees to create a new line of trustees. [...] In a suit by the holder against the drawer of a Hundi which was not presented for payment the onus of showing that the drawer could not suffer damage is thrown on the party who wants to excuse himself for the non-presentation of the negotiable instrument.