The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Noted of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday February 18 1924

The first belongs to a period when the theory of the subordination of the Lords was not developed any more than it was accepted when the personal will of th3 monarch was a potent factor dominating the conduct and action of the executive. [...] It was then held that the Crown had no such power." " Life peerages except in the case " says Lord Halsbury " of spiritual peers and the four Lords of Appeal in ordinary cannot be created by the Crown so as to confer a right to sit and vote in the House of Lords." That is the last word on the subject of the creation of life peers in England. [...] In the second case to save the landlords from having the worst lands thrown on his hands by the tenant making a -selection only of the best lands he has cultivated during a cycle of cultivation they provide that applcation for the purpose must include all the lands cultivated by the raiyat " during the preceding period of six years." This may be advantageous to the landlord but will be et [...] The suit was decreed ex parte for the partition of the property by a Commissioner in terms of the prayer in the plaint. [...] On the reverse side of the soap the name of his firm appeared whereas on the reverse side of the complainant's soap the folowing words appeared : " A. S. M. Eshak 100 Clive Street Calcutta." The defence was that he was not guilty that the complainant could not have any right to the said soaps that there were at least 8 or 18 kinds of Gandhi Brand Soaps in the market : Held—That the complai