The Calcutta Weekly Notes October 14 1946

With the cessation of the war cases under emergency legislation which used to take up a large share of the time and lab( mr of the judges and of the pages of our reports have gone down. [...] Most of the appeals to the Privy Council mere concerned with minor points of raw and procedure and its pronouncements in contrast with those of the past do not except in a very few cases show the quality we have been acustomed to find in the jtidgmerits of that august body. [...] 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code has been the subject-matter of the Privy Council in two cases Brij Bhusan v. King-Emperor 50 C. W. N. 348 and Mamand v. King-Emperor 50 C. W. N. 353 and it seems proper attention is not paid by Courts in India to the provision of the section. [...] The right of maintenance of a Hindu widow in a joint Hindu family is founded on the fact of the devolution of the husband's share in the joint property on the other members by suvivorship. [...] The income at the time of taking the property does not constitute the measure of the rate of maintenance at all subsquent periods.