The Calcutta Weekly Notes Reports of the Important Decisions of the Calcutta High Court and of Indian Appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council November to October 1896-97

Held --That there being sufficient assets in the hands of the Defendant the Plaintiff was entitled to immediate payment and in default to the interest at the specified rate on the principal um up to the date of the suit. [...] 1 of the Interest Act (XXXII of 1839) for the amount mentioned therein is not payable by " virtue of the certificate " which merely purports to certify the registration of the amount of the admitted debt for the purposes of convenience iu administering the estate. [...] That the term "assets" has a wide signification and means the property of a deceased person chargeable with and aplicable to the payment of his debts and admission of assets imports admission cif the sufficiency of the realizable property of the deceased available for the immediate payment of his debts. [...] 35 of the AdministratoGeneral's Act in case a creditor sues the Administrator-General in his representative capacity does not impose upon the creditor an absolute obligation to pay the costa of the suit in all cases but leaves it discretioary with the Court to relieve him of the obligation if the circumstances of the case so require. [...] of the section seems to be that the landlord call serve a notice to quit at any time in the course of the year but that he shall not eject the raiyat until the end of the year next following the year in which the notice to quit is served that is to say an under.