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 March 22 1926

Early Crimin '1 Law in winning its way to the approval of the community has to take account of and restrain the natural feelings of revenge on the part of the individual wronged. [...] Le Bossignol J. observed as folows ;--" In order to avoid the conclusion that the successful retreat of the thief with the prperty puts an end to the right of private dfence in respect of such property it has been suggested that that right of defence may be rvived and that the stolen property wherever seen again in the possession of anybody may be taken by the owner from that perso [...] T take it that the reason why a person is pemitted to take the law into his own: hands during the retreat of a thief with stolen prperty is that there is no doubt regarding the identity of the thief and the right to the prperty ; also because the owner of the property is entitled to maintain his possession and to prevent the completion of the removal of the property from his possession. [...] The special value of the present work lies in it's realisation of the fact that the Indian Copanies Act though based on the &Tilsit statute differs from the latter on so many points that the English Company manuals must often prove in practice rather dangerous guides' But in the absence of an Indian manual which takes special note of these differences it is but inevitable that those who have [...] The first requisite " the Report of the Civil Justice Comittee justly points out " is to train pleaders to draft and this training will be assisted apprciably by the preparation of a work on pleadings in India on the lines of Bulltn and Leake.'.' The book under notice does not pretend to supply the whole of this want but takes a sustantial step in that direction.