The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday May 20 1929

The resulof it has been the remarkable reform and cultural movement that originated in Begal it the wake of the nineteenth century' and which in the course of that centtifY spread ever the rest of India. [...] X XXIII.] THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES OYli derings had by 1896 settled down to a steady.cour4e namely that when the rent reserved is a lump sum and the tenant is dispossessed by the landlord from a potien of the demised premises the entire rent is to be suspended and remain in suspension till the portion dispossessed from is restored to the tenant. [...] That his Lordship argues is the sense cf all the Indian decisions; that follows from the idivisibility of the rent; and that has been tecognised to be the correct and invariable -rule by the Judicial Committee in the case of Katyayani v. Udoy. [...] The passage runs thus:' The doctrine of supension of payment of rent where the teant has not been put in possession of part of the subject leased has been applied where the rent was a lump rent for the whole land leased treated as an indivisible subject." The language used by their Lordships is merely that the doctrine " has been applied " and the ordinary grammatcal construction of th [...] All that their Lorships recognise is the application but the language used does not warrant the intepretation that they are also recognising the universality of the application or the ivariability or the correctness of the rule aplied.