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 25 1909

In.such transactions the degree of fairness and fair play: to be ob4tved by the Court and its officers.' EN THEREFORE THE PURCHASER OF A PRperty *as 'misled by the statement of a Court's auctioneer as regards the material particulars of the property the Court could not saddle him with the bad bargain on the usual ground that the necessary particulars had been duly published advertised and [...] But this expression of indignation at the folly of the reckless bidder was quite out of place in a Court of law especially having regard to the fact that the auctioneer in this particular case was the agent of the Court and the sale was being coducted under the supervision of its officers. [...] FURTHER THE SUGGESTION OF THE JUDGES OF the Burma Chief Court that on the refusal of the purchaser to deposit the usual amount on the discovery of his mistake the property should have been resold by the officers of the Court under sec. [...] The Plaintiff alleged that the predecessor of the sixth Defendant for the purpose of defeating the Plaintiff's claim against him got the first Defendant to execute a collusive mortgage of the same property in favour of the second Defendant's father who sued on his mortgage and put up the property in suit to sale and it was then purchased by Defendants Nos. [...] Consideration kor compromise.—In every case of compromise the actual consideration is not the sacrifice of the rights of the parties but the settlment of the dispute and the abandonment of the claims advanced by each party.