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 April 5 1909

The Secretary of State the Secretary of War the Secretary of the Interior the Secretary of Commerce and the AttorneGeneral were all active members of the profession to which Mr. [...] The function of Government being the making and the maitenance of the law the giving of legal form and expression to the wishes of the people and the directing of the action of Government on constittional and legal lines lawyers are naturally better fitted to manage the affairs of state than members of any other profession. [...] The vendor waits for a month or so and then brings a suit against the purchaser for the price of the goods as fixed by the contract with the allegation in the plaint that the contract goods are lying in his godown at the risk of the purchaser who may take them away. [...] 78 OF THE INDIAN CONTRACT ACT ownership of ascertained goods passes to the purchaser after a contract for sale when the whole or part of the price or when the earnest is paid or when the whole or part of the goods is delivered but when the parties agree expressly or by implcation that the payment or delivery or both shall be postponed then the property in the goods passes to the purchaser as [...] Where two adjoining houses belonged to the same person and the rafters of both the houses rested on the boundary wall held that the sale of one of the houses with the wall to one did not affect the purchaser of the other house as to his right of easement for the 'support of rafters of his house upon the wall.