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 November 28 1910

Although we are prepared to give the fullest measure of credit to the policy of pacification inaugurated by Lord Minto Yet we must say that no less credit is due to the Calcutta High Court for the removal of a general dissatisfactien of the previous regime and the restoring of confdence in the public mind that the fountain-head of British justice in the Province still remains usullied We wou [...] B. C. MITTER TO THE office of the Standing Counsel of the Government of Bengal is just the sort of appointment that the legal profession would like to see made to responsible law offices under the Crown. [...] THE OBJECT OE THE LEARNED NOTE IN THE columns of our contemporary is to establish that the right of asylum is not a right belonging to the fugitive and he cannot claim the protection of the State. [...] The case for the prosecution was that in so doing the cart was used without a license and the Court convicted the owners of the farm. [...] The point as to jurisdiction had not been taken in the lower Courts and their Lordships doubted whether on the pleadings the question could arise and they thought that in any case the question' obviously depending upon facts the DefIndants could not he allowed to raise it at this stage:' The second point was that the Munsif was left justified in-entertaining the suit in the face of the order of