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 January 14 1901

On the contrary the proper construction of the statutes was that in the absence of express intention to the contrary the 58"VOL. [...] In the courise of the judment the Master of the Rolls expressed entire aproval of the view which the late Lord Chief Justice in the above case bad expressed in summing up to the jury as regards the duty of a solicitor in a speclative action. [...] The result is that the suit is dismissed and Plaintiff ordered to bear his own and Defendant's costs throughout." On the Respondent again appealing to the High Court the following order was passed on the 25th March 1896 :— " Assuming that the Cowls was made in the name of the elder brother who was at the time joint with the other members of the family we think the evidence of the enjoyment of th [...] Mr Branson for the Appellant contended that the decision.of the District Judge was correct the mutiarnamah was not a genuine document that them was nothing to justify the High Court in drawing the inference that under the conveyance to the elder brother the family took and not the elder brother alone. [...] 873) held that the plea that the proceeds of the Ghatwali were not attachable was untenable and dismissed the appeal of the judgment-debtor and ordered the attachment of the rents and profits due to the Ghatwal judgment-debtor -on account of his Ghatwali estate.