The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday December 8 1941

In dciding the question their Lordships proceed almost entirely on the status of adopted sons “as shaped by judicial decisions ” and from the finding that the status is the same as that of a natural born son they appear to argue back that the daughter who may possibly adopt a son must logically occupy the same position as a daughter to whom the birth of a male child is possible. [...] The chief deviations in Class I are: (1) making the maiden daughter a co-heir with the son; and (2) conferring a right of inheritance upon the son's daughter the daughter's daughter and the sister. [...] Will the Court split the decree and stay the anterior portion of 1940 and proceed with the posterior accrual or the Court will submit to the vagaries of the. [...] An appeal filed against a company after a winding-up order has been passed witout the leave of the Court is not a valid apeal; a subsequent application for leave to continue the appeal is in fact an application to file an appeal; if at the time such applcation is made the appeal has become barred by limitation the Court should reject the application for leave. [...] The Bengal Cess Act aims at the obtaiing by the Board of Revenue of correct particulars of the income from the land for the cess year and has nothing to do with the income which was being received for such lands before the valuation or revalation as the case may be.