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 February 8 1909

So far as the costs of appeals to the House of Lords are concerned the average is nearly double those in the Privy Council for the average amount brought in was and the average amount allowed A LARGE AND INFLUENTIAL MEETING WAS HELD ill the council-room of the Law Society on Tuesday the 15th of December last to consider the advisbility of forming a society to further the cause of legal educat [...] Their Lordships held that although the terms of the solenama regarding the taking of the lease could not have been enforced in the execution of the decree they must be held to be binding on the Defendants as an agreement ; that no objection could be taken as to the admisibility of the solenama on the ground of its being unregistered ; that the Defendants having been in occupation of the jalka) [...] "that anything which forms part of the compromise but which is not part of the subject-matter of the suit cannot be regarded as finally settled between the parties." But later on his Lordship did however remark that " it may be different in a case where the compromise relating to matters outside the suit formed a part of the consideration of the comprmise relating to the subject of the suit. [...] That the word " I" is very strong to shew that the promisor was a person in the ordinary sense an individual and not the legal person of a Company and that the name of the Company at the end of the note f.s not to be treated as the signature of the maker of the note. [...] Two appeals were preferred by both parties to the Subordinate Judge the Defendants contending that the Munsif ought not to have proceeded with the trial of the suit on the merits upon the failure of the arbitrator to submit their award inasmuch as no order had been made fixing that date for the final hearing of the case in the event of the failure of arbitrators to submit their award : the Plai