The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday December 12 1898

The question before the Court was whether books came within the definition of goods " in the Merchadise Marks Act and whether a piracy of any publication by imitating the monogram and a fancy design compoed of the name of the author brought the offender under the penal provisions of the Act which have been embodied in Ch. [...] The unfavourable comment of the High Cicala as to the care with which enquiries preliminary to commitment were conducted together with the increase in the number of indigo riot cases ill 111011gllyr and those of dacoity iu Purnea go to show laxity on the part of the police ; but the Lieutenant-Governor hopes that with the disappearance of famine and the exercise of vigilance on the part of the l [...] The Iktspondents as his representatives brought the present suit for possessilm of lItzidpur on the ground Hatt as it WaS not included ill the mortgage deed and as the Rink had only applied for sale of the villages therein secured the sale was void..tb /a/lib hieing beyond the jurisdiction of the Court who ordered the sale thereof to do so. [...] There is a well-k1101%"1 13011gal "'rimer "lla/tia " by one Rani Sunder Bvsack winch has the name :in(' monogram of the author impressed in the form of a seal on the title-page and a fancy design composed of the name of the author on the back. [...] -There is the finding of the lower (lout and your rule is that on the findings the convitions are bad.] Then I submit the convictions in this case being for substantive offences the conviction of the Petitioners for the abetment of those offences is bad and cannot stand.