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 12 1912

The thanks of their branch of the prfession are due to the Society for securing the attorneys the privilege of being appointed Parttion Commissioners both within and outside the Ordinary Original Jurisdiction of the High Court and Commissioners for the recording of evidence outside such limits. [...] Had not the partition of Eastern Bengal taken place and had Behar Chota Nagpur and Orissa remained wi h Bengal the Governorship with an Executive Council could have been created for the Presidency of Bengal by giving effect to the provisions of the S atute above referred to and providing that the number of the members of the Executive Council shall not be more than four as has been done by the I [...] The question still remains what is the position of the transferee without title (be he a purchaser of the whole or a portion of the holding or a Mortgagee) when the original tenant continues even after the transfer to maintain his former relationship with his landlord ? Can the landlord sue him in ejectment over the head of the tenant who in the conditions supposed has not abandoned his holding [...] The tables of cases and statutes would by themselves go to show the character of the notes which the editors have thought fit to append for the elucidation of the forms.. [...] The introdutory chapters giving the briefest history of Roman law law Courts and procedure and the constittion of the family the gens and the curia are of the greatest assistance in forming a correct idea of t he historical position and the true signficance of much of what Justinian says.