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 June 17 1912

He was one of the small band of Englishmen who have contributed very *much to the proper understanding of the most difficult systems of modern German Philosophy and his contributions to the study of some of the vexed questions of philosophy in his Gifford Lectures are of considerable merit and originality. [...] The contention on behalf of the Provinces was that no Legislature in Canada had the power to authorise the asking of such questions at all; that under the British North America Act the Dominion Government was authorised to estalish a Supreme Court for hearing appeals from the Provincial Courts; that such Court must be a judicial body “according to the conception of judicial character obtaining [...] The consideration of this question tempts a discussion on the history of the relations of the Judiciary and the Executive and as to how from being the advisers of the Crown in matters of administration of justice the judiciary gradually attained to its present position of independence of the Executive while in America the Judgds are placed in a sense above the Executive. [...] BABU SATYA KANTA BANDOPADHYAY PLEADER Faridpur made a reference to the High Court through the District Judge of Faridpur enquiring " whether it is permissible for two or more pleaders of the mofussil Courts to start a joint office for the conduct of their professional business on the lines adopted by the Attorneys and Solicitors of the High Court in strict compliance with the provisions of th [...] The risks covered by the policy were " perils of the sea and all other perils losses and mifortunes that have or shall come to the hurt. detriment or damage of the said goods." It was contended on the Plaintiffs' behalf that the loss was due to a “peril of the sea.” The learned Judge held that the damage was not due to a sea peril at all but was solely due to the weakness of the hulk and