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 July 5 1920

The same number of the journal gives a report of the anniversary of the Society at which many distinguished jurists dealt with the importance of the comparative study of legilation for keeping pace with human progress throughout the world. [...] The summary diposal or the striking off of such suits from the file for the purpose of swelling the number of disposals in the returns may very well be dicourag6d if it is madesknown to the judicial.officers that such practice will be :regarded by rthe. [...] You also deplore the detioration of the high Moral otone thateused to prevail'among the suordinate judiciary and point out that undue haste in the disposal of cases brings in its train other faults which cannot but degrade them in the estimation of the public. [...] The great merit of the work has been the happy combination of the abstract' and the concrete one finds in. [...] Justice cominentaries on the ►Act was I believe the first in the field and it was in the fitness.of things also that he should be also the'first in the field with a second - In the present edition the author has added an appendix giving the entire Act in consecutive form and sec.