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 March 26 1928

The following extract which is taken from the pages of the Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation rgarding the draft Penal Code of Italy will very well illustrate the common danger of replacing the old order of things by the new. [...] The policy followed by the Crown as the head of the group of states known as the British Empire has been one and not various so that the well-known words of Creasy are still formally true : " His Majesty our King is the visible representtive of the whole Empire towards all foreign states." Yet the actual position of the King has changed ; for whereas formerly the Crown acted in international [...] The King depends on the Government of Great Britain to aminister the Imperial policies in Great Britain and the non-Dominion Empire and on the Dominion Governments to administer the Imperial policies in the Dominions. [...] The Plaintiff's claim in respect of the latter was decreed by the Court of first istance but on appeal by the Defendant Bank to a full Court the Judges were divided whereupon the Bank carried the appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. [...] The Court of Appeal below held that the Plaintiff had title and the notice was in time as the Plaintiff had knowledge of the incumbrance within one year from the date of the notice.