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 September 4 1911

The overcrowding of the legal profession with impecunious candidates for fortune is neither conducive to the good of the litigants nor to the dignity and honour of the profession. [...] At the dinner given by the Bar of England references to the poli!ical history of India the thesis to the famous French Advocate Burryer on eth being that the dev( lopment of the Hindu Law Is November 1864 Lord Brougham observed that intertwined with the poli ical history of the country the first great quality of an advocate was to reckon and that the different metrical Smritis are not so ever [...]. I he also enjoined upon his sons and grandsons to illustrated the difference between the' fas' and the ' ne fas ' 44 regard the Conquest by Piety as the only true of advocacy by the analogous case of the sword of the —.._...-- sacerdotal law by stopping the killing of animals conquest." The pious despot suspended the warrior and the poisoned dagger of the assassin. [...] The destruction of the truth of the 'conquest by sword.' India expressed sacred law would have been the annihilation of her contempt of her royal pietists by the pen of the Hindu Society. [...] It reminds one of the utterances of deserves the leadership of the army (senapatya) the English barons in one of the earliest parlisovereignty the chiefship of the executive and ments : NO INNOVATION IN THE LAWS OF ENGLAND.