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 27 1911

The decisive turn was given to the law of baiments by the supercession of detinue for bailments by an action on the case and the introduction of the theory of quid pro quo borrowed from the action of debt. [...] By the fusion of these two different liabilities of bailees by reason of their supposed or real undertaking r take care of the thing and of comon farriers by reason of the public nature of their calling the law of bailment now that both the forms of action became fused in one took a new courae of development. [...] The development of a law of common carriers also was peculiarly English though it may have been moulded later on on the model of the Roman law of quasi-contract based on the occuption of naulae while that of caufrones and stablari undoubtedly formed the basis of the Common law liability of inn-keepers. [...] After the passing of the Indian Contract Act the question arose whether the liability of comonon carriers like that of all other bailees was not governed by the provisions of the Contract Act. [...] The early experience acquired by the author in rendering frequent assistance to the Public Prosecutor at Alipur and later on in conducting the defence in the great Alipur Cospiracy Case has enabled him to deal with the sections of the Code relating to Police investigtion magisterial enquiry and other matters conected with the progress of trial in the Courts in a thoroughly practical man