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 April 11 1921

The Vendetta' was undoubtedly the necessary condition of the very existence of the small and semi-independent group of the familial type known to anthropologists as the Bens where the rule is to regard the death of one of its members at the band of a member of a neighbouring group as a casus WU wherupon both groups as such are involVed in a quarrel. [...] As the matter is of considerable public iportance of has become necessary to examine detail the 'limitations if any to the exeVI`se of the poweer of the High Cotirt to make rules of praletice and Procedure for itself and iri that.-CennectiOn also the legality of the Rules as made and published. [...] the Calcutta Small Cause Court and also to the Rules in the same chapter whereby judicial quasi-judicial and non-judicial functions of the Court under the Code appear to have been delegated to the Registrar in contravention of the provisions of secs. [...] Some draftmen have attempted to get round the express words of the order and the effect of the above two judgments by inserting an allegation in the plaint that the Plaintiff according to the cutom of the market was entitled to interest at a certain rate say 12 per cent. [...] Whet the case comes on for trial Counsel presses the Court for interest on the ground that Such interest is claimed in the plaint and the Defendants not having appeared to contest the claim under the terms of the order the allegations in the plaint shall be deemed to be admitted.