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 12 1920

A Bill Was recently introduced in the House of Lords by the Earl of Stanhope etitled the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Bill which contained a provision that no persowas to be deemed a natural-born British subject unless the father at the time of the birth of such person was a British subject. [...] Meetelast opposed the second reading of the above Bill in the House of Lords on the In this connection we-may also set out here an extract from the letter of Lord Grey of :31st January last where he expounded this costitutional convention in the following terms :1 “ Whatever the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire may be in theory and letter of the constitution they have in fact c [...] The following extract from the proceedings of the anniversary meeting of the Society of Comparative Legislation will show how the Bar Associations throughout the Unitjd States as also the' American Government actively partqpate in securing -uniformity and co-ordination in legislation throughout the federal States. [...] The Defendant alleged that the register of voters was published under r. 4 on the 23rd of January 1920 that the Plaintiff not having applied for insertion of his name within 15 days from the publication of the voter's list his application was barred by limitation and his name therefore could not be inserted and that registration of name was additional qualifiction. [...] On appeal to the High Court against the order of remand the Defendant-Respondent raised two preliminary objections as to the copetency of the appeals :--FirSt the order of remand not having decided any question as to ' conflicting claim ' or rate of rent ' arising between the patties the appeal was barred by' see.