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 March 4 1901

The importance of the discovery noted in the columns Of the Jortrnal of 4he Society of Comparative Legislation does not comprise in the question whether Relthareara„ the Chief Justice pOsseased all the virtues which are inscribed on his tomb but consists in the fact what people even in that distant age believed to be the ideal virtues of a judge. [...] The greater number of important civil cases are now tried by native subordinate judges and the reports of the decisions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council show thao frequently the opinion of a single subordinate judge is prferred to that of the judges of the High Courts sitting in appeal from him. [...] N. 49 was explaied on the ground of abetment before the actual presence of the accused at the time of the comission of the offence abetted. [...] The Plaintiffs now sought to recover from the underwriters on the ship the whole of the ship's proportion of the salvage and of the general average contribution. [...] The learned Judge had found as a fad that the Defendant had by the acts to which Plaintiffs took exception so far diminished the light as to be materially insufficient during a part of the day for the special reguirements of the Plahitiff's industry ; and that the inconvenience to which the Plaintiffs was subjected could be and to a great extent had been oviated by the removal of machines to t