The Calcutta Law Journal December 16 1912

Just as a doctor must watch the effect on the patient of the medicine he has prescribed so the crim.nal judge.will have to watch the effect upon the criminal of the punishment inflicted or the other remedial measures. [...] This is also a triumph for the principle that it is the character of the criminal and not the crime committed which should determine the quality and quantity of the State’s counteraction. [...] to) in the case of payment not executed within two months from the day of intimation of the order and of the insolvency of the condemned! the *fine (multa) (I) is converted into detention a day being eqbal to ten francs and to a fraction of ten francs of the sum not paid. [...] If the tribunal condemns the criminal to a long imprisonment it may allow to the injured person a part of the prisoner's money earned." This is only one particular aspect of current modern ideas which desires to enlarge the functions of the State and to reduce the citizen to a puppet in all circumstances of his life aided always by the protective mantle of His Majesty the State. [...] The following questions were referred to the Full Bench by Stephen and D. Chatterjee JJ.—Is an alienation by way of mortgage by:a Hindu widow of a portion of the estate of her husband without any proved legal necessity but with the consent of the next reversioner for the time being valid and binding on the actual reversioner who is not the heir of the consenting reversioner ? Mr...