The Calcutta Law Journal. Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters March & April 1st 1933

Therefore the matrimonial jurisdiction of the Kozi and the procedure to be followed by him as a matrimonial judge have been preserved as the law of marriage preserved to the Muharnmadans includes the provisions laying down the special jurisdiction and procedure governing matrimonial cases. [...] which the wife can not divorce herself under the sanction of law or under contract but depends on the order of the Kazi to effect divorce should be distinguished from those in which the wife can attain the status of a divorced wife by exercising delegated authrity given her in the contract or by exercising the option of puberty. [...] It will not be far from the truth to say that from the professional point of view whatever might Le the view-point of the students of law in the matter the lawyers were for some time past practically going without that type of work on procedure as is indispensably necessary for ascetainment of the real state of the law in respect of the complicated difficult and doubtful questions of proce [...] Another remarkable point of merit in the book is that it has taken notice of the conflicts of judicial decisions and has discussed the merits and demerits of the respective cases and have always suggested what ought to be the correct view of the law. [...] One sure proof of the work being highly methodical is that the work looks like the handiwork of a single writer although the magnitude of the work must have called for the services of a numher of hands and it is because the same uniform method has guided all the hands that the homogeneity of the work has been maintained.