The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday May 15 1939

The last number of the Journal of Co7parative Legislation contains a useful sumary of cases on the conflict of laws from the Law Reports of the British Dominions. [...] Presentation of a cheque is g.overned by the law of the place where the instrument is payable or dishonoured but in the absence of proof of the foreign law the Court applied its own law. [...] 58 (a) of the Transfer of Property Act which speaks of "securing the paymen of money advanced by way of loan ' and ends up with the phrase " pecuniary liability " applies to all forms of mortgages including the complete usufructuary and thus brings debts under the latter form of morgages directly under the definition contained in the B. A. D Act The circumstance that the loan in its entiret [...] 40 of the Act except passed with the consent of the parties and the powers of the Appellate Officer has also been defined in sub-el. [...] Do the applicants lay at the whims of the Appellate Officer or at the whims of the members of the Board?