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 30 1928

But the Privy Council decision raises doubts if Girindra's case is also conclsive on the question of the jurisdition of the Chartered High Courts of India in the matter of the issue of the writ of habeas corpus by virtue of the powers iherited from the Supreme Courts and saved by the Charter Act and the Letters Patent of 1861 and 1865. [...] The Lord Chancellor's view that because the Judicature Act merged the various divisions of the Common Law Courts the Chancery Court the Court of Excheqtier the Court of Common Pleas and the Probate Matrimonial and the Admiralty Courts into one High Court the jurisdiction prviously exercised by each of the Courts in respect of habeas corpus was not taken away or extinguished but still surviv [...] The full text of the judment of the Lord Chancellor will be found in the issue of the London Times of the 20th June last. [...] On the other hand the Defendants denied the truth of the whole of the allegations of the plaint. [...] On the contrary it denies in toto the truth of the whole of the allegations made in the plaint The Plaintiff should have proved that there was a denial of the relationship of landlord and tenant and he should have placed before the Court the statement made by Defendant No.