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 December 5 1927

435 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in 1898 so as to enable a superior Court to call for the records of an inferior tribunal for the pupose of examining not only the legality of any order made by the latter but also the propriety thereof. [...] The impropriety of an may ay be due not only to any illegality the poceedings which led to the passing the order but also to the entire circunees of the case. [...] In the case in question the Sessions Judge made a refeence to the High Court and recommended that the conviction should be set :aside on the grounds that the prosecution witnellses had something in common with the corplaint nt and had some reason to be on bad terms with the accused that the presence of the witnesses on the spot in time to see the accused causing damage to the 'crops was no [...] The Negotiable Instruments Act and the Bills of Exchange Act are of course there with a lucid commentary on the former ; but so also are portions of the Code of Civil Procedure the Evidence Act the Limitation Act the Stamp Act and the Paper Currency Act—forming together the complete body of law substantive and collateral relating to negotiable instrments. [...] The Defendants in second appeal contended that they were not bound in law in the absence of any express authority by their pleader's relinquishment of a part of their case (12 W. R. 279) and that the legal rights of the parties had not been affected thereby : Held—That the pleader in order to aid administration of justice had ample discrtion to select the points to be argued in the appeal and h