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 20 1922

It was argued in defence of the present measure that the repeal of the Press Act of 1910 which gave a measure of protection to the Princes against attempts to crate disaffection against them threw on the Government the imperative duty of restoring them that protection. [...] The utmost that anyone was liable to suffer was the confiscation of the press which published the offending article and the forfeiture of the security he had deposited in respect of the press and of ail copies of the offending article. [...] 149 of the Bengal Tenadcy Act suggests that the notice referred to in that section should not be issued upon the third party whom the interpleading Defendant alleges to be his landlord unless the Defendant deposits in Court the full amount of the rent claimed by the Plaintiff. [...] The conclusions arrived at by his Lordship were :- 1. The use of the word malik ' generally denotes ownership but it is not conclusive and as held in Shiblakhan Bhakat v. Taragini (2) and in spite of the lase of the word it can be shown from the document or from the surrounding circumstancesthat the donee was to take a limited estate. [...] moni O. There was it'gift to dauglters and their respective sons and the testator provided that in the event of one of the daughters dying without leaving any male issue living the share of the deceased daughter was to go to the surviving daughter and her son to the exchision of female issue in both cases further in the event of the death of either daughter leaving son or son's son the share