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 May 20 1901

who heard the cause without a jury but on the Defendant's appeal the Court of Appeal unanimously reversed.that decision on the ground that on a right understanding of the facts the transaction between the parties'fell within the purview of the Gaming Act. [...] The assignee of the decree now applied on notice for the substitution of his name in place of the Plaintiff the assignor. [...] Against this order the prostitutes the Petitioners invoke the revisional powers of the Hon'ble High Court." "It is recommended that the whole order be set aside being tad in law." "The Sub-divisional officer says that the houses of the prostitutes on the road side interfere with the physical comfort ' of the publie. [...] The question Was what was the meaning of the words`date of payment ' as to whether they mean ' the date of actual payment ' or `the last day fixed for the payment' in the decree The portion of the decree material to this report was in the following words. It is ordered and decreed that this suit be decreed with cos* the Plaintiff do recover the sum of; Rs. [...] On second appeal by the decree-holder it was Held—That there is nothing in the law to prevent interest at the rate stipulated on the bond being decreed up to the date of actual payment and that the date of payment ' meant the date of actual payment "'and not the last day fixed for payment in the decree.