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 May 8 1899

The Master's office was tliolished on the abolition of the Supreme Court and the estalishment of the High Court in its place following up the contemporaneous changes introduced in the English Law Courts. [...] In the result time rolls on but not the references to the delight of the profession to the embarassment of the Regitrar and to the disgust of the parties. [...] The Government of the day under the irritation of the moment with the sanction of the Secretary of State but without any notice to the public at one sitting passed the Vernacular Press Act since repealed. [...] The same old apprehension of sonic undfined danger flowing from indiscriminate and it sponsible scribbling in the newspaper press again took possession of the Government and led to the passing of the Sedition Laws of the last year shies in other words meant a return to the press policy of the past. [...] In the present case the Settlement Officer at the time when his decision now under appeal was passed had done nothing but settle the length of the measure he was about to use in the measurement of the land of the village.