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 May 13 1912

The first section gives the Governor and Governor in Council of Bengal the same powers as the Governors and Councils of the other Presidencies subject to certain provisos of which the most important is the power of the Gvernor-General to reserve any powers that he execised till now over Bengal. [...] I of the Indian Presidency Towns Act 1815 to extend the limits of the town of Calcutta shall be transferred to the Governor in Council of the Presidency of Fort Williwn in Bengal 163clxiv THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTE. [...] 0 1.of section 3 of the Indian Councils Act 1909 (whicl relate to the constitution of provincial executive councils) shall apply to the province of Bihar and Orissa in like manner as they applied to the province of the Bengal division of the Presidency of Fort William. [...] Justice Phillimore said :- To say that a newspaper was to be restrained from expressing its opinion on a man who bulked large in the public eye from the issue of the writ to the trial of the action the date of which must be to a considerable extent in the Plaintiff's hands would be a very grave restriction on the freedom of the Press likely in many cases to be fraught with danger. [...] The Defendants 3rd parties applied for leave to His Majesty in Council but at the hearing of the application it was admitted by the Vakil for the Appellant that the value of the subject-matter in the Court of first instance was less than Rs.