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 April 19 1926

382 of the Code of Criminal Procedure lays down thati where the accused sentenced to death is a woman who is pregnant the High Coutt shall postpone the execution of the sentence and may commute the sentence of death to one at transportation for life. [...] Under the section the High Court is bound only to postpone the execution of the sentence and evidently the intention of the legislature is that the sentence may be carried out after the condemned woman is delivered of a child.. [...] In recoomition of his services the Government conferred on him the distinction of the Copanionship of the Indian Empire. [...] The Petitioner was not present at the hearing and the Judicial Committee found that the procedure adopted was wrong 'and dismissed the Petitioner's snit: The Tetitioner in :1924 having obtained leave in India appealed to the Board for the suit to be heard'ow the merits which concerned his claim to preemption. [...] The book—one of great merit—unquestioably is one of the most important contributions Made in recent times to a study of the theory of the laW of torts and its application in cocrete cases and should be widely studied.