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 5 1912

The Bar is and should always be the recruiting ground for judges and the prestige of the Bench and of the prfession would be a thing of the past if it ever ceased to be so. [...] We are glad to find that the view we have expressed above is the general sense of the community and that the offer of the appointment to him and the aceptance of it by Mr. [...] The authority of the King to make laws at any rate within the limits of divine law was fully established during the age of the Smritis ; for Yajnavalkya in laying down the principles for the guidance of corporations mentions 17410 TA or King-made law' along with the law framed by the community itself and the common law of the Shastras as the regulatives of the conduct of members of the community ( [...] The history of Roman law up to the age of the Pontiffs and that of Indian law to the age of interpretation seem to have been very nearly parallel. [...] While the religious character of law led to a decline of what little power the sovereign had over it in the East the secularisation of law im the West led to the exactly opposite consequence.