The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday February 25 1907

Justice Phillimore's dictum that the world has gone mad on the doctrine of contempt of Court we think that the exercise of the power to commit for contempt is the only adequate remedy for the state of things which we have described and that in the cam of an undefended person the Attorney-General should promptly set the law in motion against the offenders. [...] The Master of the Rolls refers to the two decisions mentioned at the head-note the latter of which was a decision of the Court of Appeal and his Lordship continued :- "They held that apart from the rules there was an inherent jurisdiction in the Court to deal with the matter notwithstanding the abatement of the action and to order that the money should be paid out to the Plaintiff. [...] There the abatement of the action was caused by the death not of the Plaintiff but of the Defendant and the Court in their discretion exercised the juridiction which they held to exist by ordering the money to be paid to the Plaintiff. [...] The very violence of it the very grotesqueness of the suggestion that the proper person to try this case was the gentleman who made the speech to his mind would prevent its having the effect of influencing the jury against the.2ase for the Defendants. [...] per annum for the period of claim and for the period between the date of the institution of the suit and the date when possession should be delivered ; and the decrees went on to direct that the mesne-profits be determined at the time of the execution of the decrees.