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 February 12 1900

THE JOURNAI OF THE SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE Legislation presents a very interesting summary of the course of legislation in the different parts of the British Empire during 1898. [...] The Court in deciding against the owners of the Ruabon Steaship Company the Plaintiffs in the action relied on the decision of the House of Lords ill the Vancouver case (11 App. [...] It was common case that the holding of the survey did not add one iota to the cse nor did it add in the slightest degree to the time during which the execution of the repairs had proceeded. [...] So in the case of land descending to coparceners subject to a debt if the creditor proceeds against one of the coparceners the others must contribute If the creditor discharges one of the coparceners he cannot proceed for the whole debt against the others at the most they are only bound to pay their proportions.' In all the cases that I have referred 80"VOL. [...] Then the Petitioners moved the High Court and obtained the present rule on the ground that the proceedings were vitiated by irregularities in regard to the joint-trial of the Petittners and that the evidence did not justify the order.