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 11 1909

571 582—Death of one of the Defendants—Witdrawal of the suit against the surviving Defendant— Application of the heirs of the deceased defendant for prosecuting the case lxviii REPORTS (See Index.) THE CEREMONY ATTENDING THE OPENING OF THE New Wing of the Calcutta High Court by His Excellency the Viceroy on Saturday the 9th of January last was quite unique and unprecedented in the annals of t [...] No such ceremony was observed on the establishment of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal by Royal Charter merging therein the jurisdictions of the Supreme Court the Sudder Dewany and the Sudder Nizamut Adawluts or on the transfer of the Chatered High Court to the imposing buildings which in point of architectural distinction occupy the premier place amongst the public buil [...] The address presented by the Hon'ble the Chief Justice and the Judges to His Excellency the Viceroy as the representative of His Majesty the King Emperor was both dignified and appropriate and followed the noble sentiments and not unoften the equally felicitous expressions of the Jucrges of England on the memorable occasion of the opening of the Royal Courts of Justice. [...] " I have all confidence that the independence and learning of the Judges supported by the integrity and ability of the other members of the profession of the law will prove in the future as they have been in times past a chief security for the rights of my Crown and the liberties of my people." THE. [...] The Chief Justice met His Excellency the Viceroy at the entrance conducted him up the staircase and presented the Judges the Law Officers of the Crown and the above officials of the Court.