The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday August 25 1919

in the English Law Journal of the 12th of July last the material portion of which we.reproduce below :— From the point of view of the international lawyer the so-called trial of the ex-Kaisar is something with which the law as such has no concern. [...] Our cotemporary concludes the article in the following terms :- " To the jurist the most interesting problem is the treatment which will be extended to the demand for surrender of the fugitive by Holland the home of International Law and the chapion no less than our own free country of the right of.asylum from political prosecutioa In the changing mood of public feeling it may be a re [...] united the powers of Judge and Magistrate and who also had the management of the Police within the limits of his Division." So that the separation of function was more nominal than real the only innovation made was that the Mal Adalat or the Revenue Court was abolished. [...] This measure the union of the offices of the Collector Judge and Magistrate with the responsibility of the Police " was in fact strictly conformable to the instructions of the Court of Directors and Board of Control who in prescribing them prfessed themselves to be guided rather by a refer;. 'ence to the subsisting manners and usages of its 189"CXC THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES. [...] We shall however for the purpose of the argument placed before us assume in favour of the Respondents that the assignee of the decree was not entitled to execute the decree even as a decree for money as he had not otained an assignment of the landlord's interest in the land.