The Criminal Law Journal of India. Journal. May 30 1907

Shakespeare wrote in the same breath of " the insolence of ttttice the law's delays." Not that we can justify Job in his sweeping condemnation: " The earth is given unto the hand of the wicked he eorereth the faces of the judges theregf ". but surely judicial fallibility should be recognized and the Bench instead of sitting in splendid isolation should expect and welcome fair criticism of the [...] All the inborn kindliness of disposition all the advantages of careful training all the dictates of that superb self-conquest of the strong embodied in " noblesse oblige " all these go to the making of the ideal judge. [...] It is not improbable that this provision was merely declaratory of an already.rcognised rule of law ; and it has in recent years been amplified by section 24 (1) of the Sale of Goods Act 1893 in the following words : " Where goods have been stolen and the offender is prosecuted to conviction the property in the goods so stolen revests in the person who was the owner of the goods or his pe [...] Even the modern requirement of the Larceny Act that in this connection night shall be deemed to commence at nine of the clock in the evening of each day and to conclude at six of the clock in the morning of the next succeeding day was not quite satifactory for it left open the important. [...] The sun shines equally upon the guilty and the innocent the air and other elements are at the service and contribute to the comfort convenience and health of the vicious and the virtuous alike.