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 3 1900

The Court of Appeal had varied the decrees of the Consular Court by holding that the first-named Respondents were entitled in addition to the value of the land taken to the value of the railway buildings erected on one of the large "Shambas " viz. [...] It follows in the train of the discussion that arose out of Sir John Scott's lecture before the Indian section of the Society of Arts and notices the opinion of some retired Anglo-Indian officials on the question of the separation of the Judicial and Executive functions. [...] The matter was brought before this Court sit the desire of the Defendant so as to have the legality of the coupon system she carried determined by the Court for the consideration of crown cases reserved. [...] The latter however refused to complete the purchase on the ground that his limit had been exceeded and the Petitioner now applied that his name might be substituted for that of Ram Akhoy Chatterjee as the purchaser of the said properties and that he be allowed to complete the purchase by paying the balance of the purchase money into Court. [...] The parties were described as man raiyats" of the village and the Plaintiff sought to have his interest separated from that of the DefendatiWs: between themselves and to have the whole aiWof the village divided from the share of his cdtsharer.