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 August 21 1922

6 6f the present Land Acquisition Act and other co-related matters and of the opnion entertained by many that the whole Act requires careful revision in the light of the eperience which has been gained since the passing of the present Act in 1894 two quetions stand out very prominently for considertion by the public and the Government. [...] But while the necessity for a definition of the expression was felt by some of the Executive Officers of Goerminent engaged in the practical working of the Act the Council upon a consideration of the whole question came to the conclusion that it-would be better not to attempt any defintion at all in that connection. [...] But there was a strong body of opinion including that of the highest authority in the realm against the grant of such a discrtionary power to the Executive Officers of Government on the ground (hi quote the Hon'ble Mr. [...] The general intention of the framers of the law seems to have failed however of its purpose in the long run in the absence of anything in the Act itself controlling the expression " pulic purpose " in the practical application of the Act by Executive Officers of Government. [...] Subsequently the grandsons of the brother of the testatrix applied for the revocation of the grant on the ground that they were heirs of the testatrix and had no notice of the prceeTings.