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 February 8 1915

The last number of the Law Magazine and Review takes the same view of tfie purchase Of war—ships by neutrals as we did at the time of— the alleged sale of GOeben and Breslau to the Turkish Government by Germany. [...] In the Crimean War Egypt duly sent her contingent to help the suzerain Power ; in the Turco-Greek War of 1897 she contented herself with withdrawing the exequaturs of the Greek consuls and took no part in the fighting ; in the Tripoli and Balkan War t she was strictly neutral and enforced punctiliously Against Turkey the respect due to her neutrality At the outbreak of the present war she issue [...] The re-arrangement of the Courts is to be left till the end of the war but in the meantime another notable opportunity is afforded to the English jurists is frame a scheme of laws—a new jua genttuns—which shall take the place of the present multiplicity of legal systems. [...] The Appellant sued and the Respondents pleaded that the claim was fraudulent and that the premists had been wifully set on fire by or with the connivance of the Appellant's firm and also that arbitration was a condition-precedent to any right of action on the policy. [...] The order of transfer was set aside and the District Judge was directed to dispose of the applications after hearing the Plaintiff and also considering the objection that circumstances have changed since the last order was passed.