The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday June 18 1934

In spite of what retired members of the Indian Civil Service may say the last word in India in a criminal trial is not always the just word and the Privy Council has again and again exposed fallacies of reasoning and disregard of the forms of natural justice. [...] But especially since the beginning of the economic crisis in India delay in notifying to the authorities the intention to apply to the Privy Council for special leave to appeal is usually due not to innate indolence but to financial difficulty. [...] The prisoner who usually belongs to the agricultural classes has spent heavily generally with borrowed money upon the proceedings in the trial Court and later in the Appellate Court ; often too on petitions to the Governor and to the Viceroy By the time his resources have been exhausted and his friends and relatives find it extremely difficult to raise the mini mum sum without which no appea [...] After the death of the widow the reversioners brought the present suit to set aside the sale on the ground that there was no legal necessity. [...] The sale cotained a property to which the widow had no title but was included for the purpose of having the deed registered in the Subregistry Office within the jurisdiction of which that property was situate: Held (WORT and 14'Azii ALL JJ.)—(i) That the inclusion of the property in the sale deed was a fraud on the registration law and therefore the Defendant could not prove his title under the