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 23 1905

Each law each institution is conditioned by the f trill of Government under which it OKIEtS and which it helps to constitute and by its relations to such facts as the physical peculiarities of the country its climate its soil its situation its size ; the occupations and Imo le of life of the inhabitants and the degree of liberty which the constitution can endure ; the religion of the peopl [...] It was the duty of the Crown to provide for the defence of the realm and how could it do its duty efficieutly without establishing rifle ranges even if they involved some risk to the subject ? It was plausible but it failed to reckon with the constitutional principle that the Sovereign Marmot invade the property of the subject and the Supreme Court of New South Wales ruled that a rifle range wh [...] The figures in the preset* statistics still show an entire lack of appreciation on the part of the jutices of the powers given them by the Bail Agt« -1898. [...] (c) of the Court Fees Act the Court was bound to accept the statements of valuation made by the Plaintiff in his verified plaint as the value of the suit for the purpose of jurisdiction. [...] Anyhow the micarriage if miscarriage there was was duo entirely to the action of the Crown and the way in which the Crown had conducted the ease.