The Calcutta Weekly Notes July 16 1951

As the particular order sought to be assailed was passed before the Constitution and as the application had been moved before the commencement of the Constitution Article 226 of the Constitution was not as it could not be in the picture at all. [...] Article 226 (1) of the Constitution of India outside ithe Original Jurisdiction of the (nurt shall subject to eny direction of the Chief Sustice be made before the judge on the Original Side taking interlocutory applcations or such other judge as the Chief Justice may appoint and heard and diposed of by him as a Judge sitting on the Appellate Side and as matters appertaining to that sid [...] Was not denial of alleged right invoked in the preliminary objection itself ? Halsbury's Laws of England referred to in the aforesaid judment must not be treated as a sacred book from the West for the lawyers in the East and the principles embodied :therein are not to be treated as of divine origin superior to the merely man-made Indian Constitution and the Adaptation particularly of section [...] One of the difficult branches in the Contract Act relates to the frustration of contract and the treatment of the suject may help the reader to grasp the subject. [...] It is inunaterial that the Act bound the Crown in the right of the Federation of India or any Provincial Government.