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 24 1919

The learned judge was the son of Baron Atkinson who is a Law Lord and whose name is well-known in India through the judicial decisions of His Lordship in the House of Lords and the judicial Committee of the Privy Council. [...] The total number of cases entered in the lists of the different divisions of the High Court of Judicature in England issued on the reopening of the Law Courts in October (Michaelmas term) is unprecedented being 1 607. [...] " How different the picture to be seen in the lower parts of Bengal ! The abject slavery of the cultivating classes could only spring from the necessity of absolute submission submission not to the revered rpresentative of an ancient family but to the upstart of the hour the Bengali Babu the new Malik the absolute lord of the soil who has no feeling in common with the people whom he fanc [...] The first of the above-mentioned enactments is annotated by commentaries which it goes without saying make full use of the judicial decisions passed upon the provisions of the Act and others bearing on analogous prvisions of other statutes which are calculated to throw light upon the proper interpretation of the provisions of the Calcutta Improvement Act. [...] 73 and 74 of the Indian Cotract Act extracts from the Institutes of Mann and the Ain-i-Akbari the proceedings of the Legislative Council lending to the enactment. of the Usurious Loans Act the texts of Reg.