The Calcutta Law Journal March 16 & April 1 1914

One of the riddles of the legal history of Bengal is the history of growth and development of testamentary power of the Hindus. [...] The testamentary power of the Hindus of Bengal is the spontaneous development of the Bengal School of Hindu law helped by assimilation of English ideas as a part of Hindu law. [...] the method of lawmaking changed those who helped the development of personal laws of the Hindus deprived of their rights and no other authority substituted to discharge the duties of the former lagivers of Bengal. [...] If we examine this subject carefully we shall find that because of the change in the method of lamaking and of the desire of the British Indian Government not to interfere with the personal laws of the Hindu there has been very little development in this branch. [...] And though a great majority including Jagannath were in favour of the acts of the two testators upon the general grcand of the competency of a Hindu to dispose of his property as he pleases without regard to the nature of it whether 'ancestral or acquired public or private yet the Court affirming the decree which had been in favour of the defendant expressly made the nature the property