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 March 15 1909

THE OBSERVATIONS OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE ON THE eve of his retirement regarding the present state of affairs on the Appellate Side of the High Court deserve the serious attention of Government. [...] But ill the case reported their Lordships held that the order of the Small Cause Court returning the plaint was not a proper order and still they refused to interfere on the ground that the order of the Small Cause Court did not fall within the purview of sec. [...] A mortgagee cannot upon the mortgage by one of the members of a joint family proceed against the interest of another member of the family where the mortgagor created the mortgage to pay off a debt to the latter. [...] Justice Beaman w ho came to the conclusion that having regard to the circustances of the family admitting that this was the literal construction the wider construction might be adopted because he says the circumstances of the family were these that there was only one person who at the time of the Will was a descedant of the father who could be adopted and he said that if the testator had [...] In the second schedule to the Bengal Municipal Act of 1884 it appears as being a Municipality in which the appointment of the Chairman rests with the Local Government and that of two-thirds of the Commissoners with the ratepayers.