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 1918

He is the true prototype of a genuine English gentleman and the good impression that he has made is not confined to the members of the Bar alone but extends to members of other sections of the profession with whom he has come in oontatt.. [...] But it is a matter of great regret that most of the mofussil creditors take advantage of the distressed condition of the debtors and strike a hard bargain by either charging exorbitant rate of interest in money or in kind on the security of their land or hypothecation of the coming crop. [...] the borrowers or to their thoughts and feeings or to any idea of the standard of civilization or to any political social moral aspects or merely as it appears to the eyes of the legislators and Judges or according to the common-sense view of equity and good conscience that the terms have to be interpreted? [...] The provisions of the Act itself are annotated with reference to the easlaw both Indian and English and railway Rules and in several appendices are given Rules of the Railway Board for the guidance of railway servants of the public and railway officials. [...] To make the work exhaustive of the law on the subject of negotiable instruments the authors provide it with a number of appendices dealing with Rules relating to Notaries Public Agreements controlling negotiable instruments Payments by bills notes and cheques Suits on negotiable instruments ; the relevant provisions of the Limitation Stamp and Evidence Acts a table of references to the Engli