The Calcutta Law Journal January 16 1914

To adjust this condition it is now proposed to establish a system of employment for all the inmates of all penal institutions to pay them for their services to utilize the result of their labor and thus to raise the standard of morale within the institutions within the individuals and to establish a method of reimbursement to the state for the heavy expense necessary for the protection of com [...] The return to the order would be regularly made to the solicitor for the guardians of the poor or other proper official in the home county and applied to the sustenance of the dependants. [...] Where therefore the defendant is negligent and the plaintiff is alleged to have been guilty of contributory negligence the test to be applied is whether the defendant's negligence was the real direct and effective cause of the misfortune." Applying this test but without conceding that the mere fact of the plaintiff putting an arm out of the window was an act of negligence the Court held upo [...] Attempt was made to show that the decision in that case was really confined to the specific case of the estate being vested in the widow of the deceased son at the time when the mother exercised her power of adoption and had no application to the case of the estate being vested in any other heir. [...] 11* that the decilion there proceeded not on the particular consideration that die heir of the deceased son in whom the estate had vested was the widow of the son but upon the general ground that the estate having been vested in the heir of the deceased son the mother's power to adopt was at an end.