The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday June 22 1914

- We invite the attention of the Government of India and of the legal profession to a short article contributed to our columns by Sir John Trevelyan (ex-Judge of the Calcutta High Court and the author of a well-known commentary on the Hindu Wills Act and of an excellent treatise on Hindu Law) upon the urgent necessity of a revision of the Hindu Wills Act of 1870. [...] We need only add that a learned Hindu commentator of the Act also has been complaining in our columns about the revolution in the Hindu ideas of devolution of property that is being brought about by the operation of some of the provisions of the Succesion Act which are foreign to juristic notions prvailing amongst the Hindus. [...] The article opens with the hackneyed theme of the absence of legal training in the case of the members of the Indian Civil Service and the consequent disadvatages they labour under in the discharge of their judicial duties. [...] The current issue of the Calcutta Gazette cotains new rules defining the ordinary local limits of the jurisdiction of the several Police Courts in the town of Calcutta and providing for the ditribution of business and the place and time of sifting of those Courts. [...] It appears from the evidence on the side of the prosecution that the gate at the crossing was open and it also appears from the evidence of the 1st witness that when in answer to the invitation of the open gate the Petitioner proceeded to cross the train was not in motion but was standing at the distant signal.