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 March 8 1915

We published in our last issue at sonic length the report of the judgment of the Court of Apeal in England presided over by the Lord Chief Justice the Master of the Rolls and six Lords Justices on the question of alien enemies and their right of suit and liability to be sued during war in the British Court of Justice. [...] Germany like ourselves has had to re-adjust its legal machinery to meet the exigencies of the war and a very instructive account of this re-adjustment is given in a series of articles cotributed to the Solicitors' Journal in October November and December by C. H. Huberich of Berlin and Hamburg Counsellor at Law of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and Richard King Solic [...] but at the dates of the leases to the predecessors of the Defendants the lesors had not obtained the final patta from Governments The rent provided for by the first lease was si as. [...] The Defendants cotended that upon a proper construction of the leases of 1835 and 1840 they were entitled to a deduction of one-fourth irrespective of the quantity of the actual cultivated area and that the decision in a previous suit (No. [...] field that the mere facts that the Defendants paid or deposited rent at the rate claimed for a number of years upon a mistaken view of the effect of the previous decision could not dieentitle them from claiming a deduction of one-fourth of the lands to which they were entitled under the terms of the leases.