The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters February 16 1929

For the date which a deed bears is merely prima facie evidence of the date the true date being the day on which the deed was delivered by the grantor. [...] That debtor who is ignorant of the art of writing shall cause to be written his assent or if the witness be so by means of another witness in presence of all the witnesses. [...] The Minister of War and Peace specially empowered for the purpose by the King himself shall fully write down the King's grant together with the boundaries and measurements (of the land) on copper plate or else on strong cloth. [...] And besides bringing the case law and the statute law down to date the editor has added in this edition appendices incorporating the High Courts Act the Government of India Act and the Letters Patents of all the High Courts which one badly missed in previous editions. [...] It is possible to comment on the method followed in the work notably on the total absence of all distinction between the treatment of leading cases and unimportant decisions and on the want of any guidance on the development of the law in the various cases.