The Calcutta Weekly 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 23 1922

499 of the Indian Penal Code which dealt With defamation it did not necessarily follow that it was the intention of the legislature to exclude its application from the law of this country and by the application of the English common law the statement was absolutely privileged and could not be the subject of an indictment. [...] In the present case the question of the applicability of the common of Enland to this country arose in a case the facts which were as follows —On the day in question the Petitioners attention was drawn to the misconduct of a drunken and disorderly man who was not only threatening to commit a breach of the peace but was a danger to the other villagers. [...] A few months later the father solemnised the marriage of the daughter with a suitable bridegroom and this led to the prsecution of the father and the son-in-law for abetting the offence of bigamy. [...] The principal question for determination is whether the Appellants can challenge the puchase at an auction of the property in dispute by the predecessor of the Respondents seeing that they had allowed the Respondents to rmain in possession for -20 years and had aquiesced in a decision of the Court excluding the properties from sale and whether the suit is barred by limitation._ Having he [...] The object in delivering the lectures was to facilitate the study of the provisions of the Sale of Goods Act 1893.