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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 Short Notes of Important Decisions of other High Courts in India Monday December 8 1930

1930

It took the better part of the last century for the United States of America to put its federal form of paper constitution framed by Jefferson and John Adams into working order and not till the towering personality and genius of Abraham Lincoln had saved it from going to pieces during the Civil War was the Commonwealth consolidated. [...] So we are not prepared to take a pessimistic view of either the political unrest in India or the vicissitudes in the deliberations at the Round Table Conference due to diSsesions and disagreements amongst those avocating the claim of the princes or the people races or the communities and have every faith in India taking her rightful place amongst the Commonwealth of Nations in due course. [...] Even if such Paramountcy is regarded as a prerogative of the Crown all acts done by Virtue of such prerogative are done either in the name of the Governor-General in Council or by the Secretary of State for Idia for the Crown i.e. [...] Holdworth who was a member of the Comittee that the present relationship between the Indian Ruling Chiefs and the Goverment of India as represented by the Governor-General and the Secretary of State for India cannot be transferred to the Governor-General if he becomes responsible to the Indian Legislature is obviously utenable. [...] At any rate it was further urged inasmuch as the Railway have a right to withhold goods till freight has been paid the fact that the goods had been delivered to the consignee without realising the freight evidenced a new contract with him as ditinct from the original contract of carriage creating an obligation on the consignee to pay the freight: Hcld---(i) That although the freight was pay
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