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 December 22 1924

it Is said at the eonclsion of the article that this system " has edcated millions of people to the difference between the place of politics and the place of administration in Municipal Government and has enabled the selection of the central administrative head to be based on profesional fitness." xlii 31 iv liv Power to Punish for contempt. [...] In the Act of Congress referred to above it was enacted that all the said Courts of the United States shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment at the discretion of said Courts all contempts of authority in any cause or hearing before the same." As pointed out in the article the occasions for the exercise of the power this conferred were not defined so the door was left open for its [...] The effect of the Full Bench decision in Dayamayi's case therefore was that so far as the transferee of a part of the holding is concerned the case of Nalini v. Fulmani must be taken to have been overruled inasmuch as the landlord is not entitled to recover possession of the holding. [...] Thus Mookerjee J. of that Court observes :—" The effect ol the sale in exection of the (rent decree) will be to pass to the (auction) purchaser the (holding) free of the interest of the (private purchaser). [...] After the transferee has been rcognised by the landlord a decree obtained against the transferor would not bind the 'transferee and therefore the interest of the transferee would not be affected by the sale.