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 9 1911

I.—THE CONCEPTION OF CRIME In modern jurisprudence crime is distinguished from a civil wrong by the difference of the nature of the action and the tribunal trying them by the different methods of procedure followed and by the difference in the remedy. [...] It is quite clear that the Nibandhas and the commentaries which sought to develop a system of law on the basis of the Smritis were brought into existence by practical difficulties in administering the law of the Smritis owing to the growth of new circumstances as well as to the conflict amongst the Smritis themselves. [...] The criminal law as we thus find it bespeaks a highly advanced state of society not only in the fulness of detail with which commercial law is dealt with and in the modes of life and business which the laws generally indicate but also in the form of the law as well as the theory underlying the punishment of crimes. [...] In the course of his judgment the MASTER OF THE ROLLS observed :- It is clear law that a patentee when his patent has expired or been revoked has thrown open to the pulelic the right to use the patent article and that the fact of his user during the continuance of the patent does not entitle him to say that his user during the life of the patent has so far assciated his name with the goods th [...] On the 15th June 1909 the Respondent applied to the Court of the District Judge of Quetta Pishin to file the said agreement in Court under the provisions of sec.