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 11 1910

But under the new regulations a native of India will have to produce a certificate of character from either the Collector the Deputy Commissioner or the Political Officer of the place in which the family of the applicant resides. [...] Those who have passed the Responsions at Oxford or the Previous examintion at Cambridge or the Matriculation examintion of any of the Chartered Universities of the United Kingdom will be admitted to the Inns of Court as before. [...] Having regard to the many analogies which the Madras Act now bears to the Bengal Tenancy Act and the large number of Bengal cases referred to in elucidation of its provisions and the ability with which these have been handled by the author the book may not unprofitably be referred to by the Bengal lawyers as well. [...] The question which arose in the present case was this—Was this commission payable on the property being knocked down at the auction sale and a contract being entered into and signed by the person who bid for the property and *paid a deposit or was the commission only payable when the contract was completed and carried out in its entirety ? In his judgment the words if the property remains unsold" [...] On that basis the Plaintiff wanted to realise from the Defendant a share of the rent precisely proportionate to the share of the lands comprised in the estate of which the Plaintiff was the proprietor.