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 August 26 1901

TUE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION AFFECTING the residence clause in the Regulations of the Government of India under the Indian Councils Act of 1892 relating to the election of members to local Councils was published in the Ga.zette India of 17th August 1901 :— In exercise of the power conferred byjec. [...] c. 14) and with the approval of the Secretary of State for India in Council the Governor General in Council is pleased to modify to the extent set forth below the regulations published with the Notification of the Government of India in. [...] ecci only say that the failur6 of the patentee to push the patented invention in this country for seven years and the circumstance of the expiration of the foreign. [...] It was also laid down in the case of _Myth (Lushington's Reports p. 16) that when the vessel of a salvor was injured or -lost while engaged in a salvage service the presumption was that the injury or loss was caused by the necessities of the service and not by the default of the salvors ; and that the burden of proof lay upon the parties who alleged that the loss was caused by the salvors' own [...] Adopting the principles thus laid down and in the absence of any evidence that the damage to the..1tigile was caused by negligence orilefault on the part of the master or crew of the vessel their Lordships *ere of opinion that the damage assessed by the Registrar was rightly awardefeagainst the Appellants.