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 July 29 1918

The Privy Councillors are still appointed and summoned by the Governor-General but the constitutional practice has developed there that he summons the leader of the party who commands the celhdence-of the Canadian House of Commons and this leader of the House as Prime Minister selects his colleagues and the Governor-General nominates them as Privy Councillors. [...] But on the whole and subject to such reservation we must say that the framwork of the Senatorial Chamber as foreshadowed in the Indian _Reform Scheme is to - be preferred to the constitution of the Senate in the Dominion of Canada. [...] In the Dominion of Canada the power of legilation is vested in the Crown the GovernoGeneral the Senate and the House of Commons (i.e. [...] Reading the Report between the lines we find that the framers of the scheme have by anticpation recommended the repeal of the statutory limitations as to the number and qualifications of the members of the Executive Council of the Government of India and made some other very significant suggestions. [...] 903 it was optional with the decree-holder to take execution either for the amount of the first default in September 1902 or for the whole of the decree : Held—On the authority of the case in.21 C. W. N. 835 when the present application was made the whole decree was barred inasmuch as the decree provided that in default of any one instalment the whole of the decretal money would be payable.