The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday February 9 1942

The Journal of Comparative Legislation for August 1941 received sometime ago which publishes summaries of the legisltion placed on the statute-book during the year 1939 in different countries of the world makes somewhat strange reading in the present-day atmosphere of the world. [...] It enables the Lord Chancellor to order the sittings of the Court of Appeal and High Court to be in places and on dates ya directed to remove and re-distribute egal officials and their business to deal dimilarly with the Court of Criminal Apal the Central Criminal Court and the inferior Courts and to provide elastically for circuits and assizes. [...] 3 (1) of the Usurious Loans Act of which the last portion is given as of a date more than (twelve) years from the date of the epression." The correct text is " at a date " and the change of the preposition alters the meaning of the provision completely or rather makes it meaningless. [...] When some of the partners of a firm borrow money from a third party and on a joint decree being obtained by the creditor one of the borrowers pay up the amount and sues the others for contribution the first question to determine is whether the debt was really a partnership debt arising out of the partnership business or a seprate liability incurred by the borrowers jointly on their own accoun [...] The articles of a Company provided as follows— The Directors may in their dicretion refuse to register the transfer of any share to any person whom it shall in their opinion be undesirable in the interest of the Company to admit to membership " A transfer of share having been made and submitted to the Company the Directors passed a resolution that the Directors in their discretion were not inc