The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday February 9 1914

The rink Railway C.inpany The Legislature of any British possession to which this Act extends may modify or add to any of the provisions of the Act in its application to the possession hut except so far as such modifications or additions relate to procIzaii dure and remedies they shall apply only to works the authors whereof were at the time of the making of the work resident in the posses [...] 1-3 of the English Act of 19 ti the term for which copyright sub sista in translations is the life of the author and a period of fifty years after subject to the right of republication by others by the payment of royalties on a specified scale as provided for in the English Statute. [...] Where there was no regular hearing of the case and the evidence on which the disposal was made was not placed on the record: Ifeld—That the order of the lower Appellate Court remanding the case to the Court of first instance was proper although the disposal was not on a point which could strictly be called a preliminary point. [...] Where the value of the suit exceeded rupees ten thousand but that of the proposed appeal to the King in Council against the decree of the High Court which reversed the decree of the lower Court was below that amount. [...] The fallacy in the view taken by the Court of Appeal appeared to him to have been that they endeavoured to interpret the covenant without reference to the circumstances of the particular trade and of the situation of the parties who entered into the contracts contained in the leases.