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 27 1925

Whiteley on the 20th Feb in moving the second reading of the Representation of the Peple Bill which tieeks to extend the franchise to women at the age of twenty-one on the same terms as now apply to men referred casually in the course of his speech to a matter which lies near the seat of Parliamentaoi life and exercises an influence little if at all publicly acknowledged but of incalcul [...] Sir William Anson thus expounds and explains this position which he says is a large factor in costituting the Government through the power of dissolution the master of the House of Commons: The weapon ” he writes “ by which the Prime' Minister or the Cabinet enforces its will upon the Commons is the threlit of a dissolution. [...] A contract to pay a fair compensation for use and occupation is iplied by law from the fact that land or prmises belonging to the Plaintiff has been occupied by the Defendant by the Plaintiff's permission the amount of compensation dpending on the value of the premises and on th e duration of the occupation. [...] A fortiori if the tenant is still in possession a decree will be passed in the landlord's favour for such period before the date of the institution of the suit as falls within the period of limitation. [...] It is a question whether the statement that in cases of negligence the Defendant is liable for the probable consquences (that is to say the consequences which might reasonably be anticipated) is not due to a confusion arising from importing the test which is applied in determining the existence of the negligence to the ascertainment of jhe measure of damages for negligence itself cosists i