The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday June 27 1904

The last number of the Erglish Law Notes commenting on such Statistics makes the following observations Judging from the volume of Civil Judicial Statistics officially issued over the name tf Sir John Macdonell a Master of the Supreme Court the inhabitants of these islands are the most 253ccliv THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES. [...] On the other lend if the right to insist on the co-parceners being joined is for the benefit of the Defendant to insure himself against further litigation (and the question of the right of a manager to site is rather one of authority) the objection on the score of non-joinder (i.e. [...] The following points of general interest Were decided in the course of the suit (which was a suit by the representatives of the Parsi inhabitants of Udwada in Surat District to prevent interference with the managment of a fire temple by certain persons claiming as trustees under a trust deed executed by a lady who had rebuilt the temple at her own cost as an act of piety) :—First that in Indi [...] The prsiding Judge may in such case permit the opposing advocate to iiitervene and cross-examine during the examination-in-chief and in some cases the Judge ought to do so in order to come to a definite conclusion as to - the proof of the handwriting at that stage. [...] The power ought not to be lightly exercised. I quite agree that the Court to which the application is made for service abroad has not to try the question whether a suit can in the result be successfully maintained but it ought I think to be convinced by the proof brought _before it that the applicant is in a position to present to the tribunals of the country a substantial case for t