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 22 1912

The Bill is described as one “ to make such amendments in the laws relating to the Government of India as are cosequential on the appointment of a separate Governor of Fort William in Bengal and other administrative changes in the local Government of India.” The Bill makes an amendment of the schedule of the Indian Councils Act of 1909 by which a maximum of fifty members each is provided for th [...] In our article on the subject of the legality of the recent reditributions we pointed out that the creation of the Province of Behar by proclamation was an act of doubtful legality and that the abolition of the Council of Eastern Bengal and Assam might posibly be ultra vies of the Government of India and suggested a validation of these measures by the Parliamentary Bill. [...] In the redistrbution of the territories between the provinces it has now been definitely recognised that the wishes of the people affected by the transfer 137cxxxviii THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES. [...] Since the death of the testator the trustees of his Will had received various sums and various distributions of shares of the Crelit Foncier in respect of the ordinary and deferred shares of the Societe Egyptienne held by the trustees. [...] But as the money was raised on the mortgage for the benefit of minor sons the Defendants could not avoid the mortgage without restoring the benefit which they had received under the mortgage and the equitable doctrine was applicable not only when they as was Plaintiffs sue for a declaration that the morgage not binding but also when they are Defenants in an acion upon the mortgage.