The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday January 16 1899

But the most valuable of these reforms undoubtedly was the introduction of the popular element and the increase of the non-official members in the Council. [...] The Court of Wards refusing to recognize the Appellant's right and having purported to hold the estate for the second Respondent the alleged A //rasa son the present suit was instituted by him to have his title to the estate declared as the adopted son and that the second Respondent was not the naturaborn son of the late Raja and for consequential relief. [...] It was alleged by the Plaintiff that the tenement belonging to the Plaintiff and the tenement over which the right of way was Claimed belonged origially to one and the same person and that the original owner of the land over which the way was claimed used it as a way for purposes of ingress to and egress from the other tenement now belonging to the Plaintiff. [...] The following items of business were done during the day :-- The Bill to provide for the exemption from the operation of municipal laws of certain buildings and lands which are the property or in the occupation of Government and situate within the limits of a municipality was referred to a Select Committee consisting of the lion. [...] 100.1.--The Gth January 1899.— With the previous sanction of His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General the Lieutenant-Goyerno appoints under the provisions of the Indian Councils Acts of 1861 and 1892 Raja Ranajit Shiba Baliadur of Nashipur Murshidabad to be a member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal for the purpose of making Laws and Regulations in the Bengal Divisio