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 Short Notes of Important Decisions of other High Courts in India Monday February 13 1933

The grant of ferrying rights is a grant of a toll franchise and the protection afforded broadly is that other people areonot to prejudice the profits arising from the exercise of that franchise by conveying traffic of a similar nature in the line of the ferry or in the neighbouhood. [...] To the same effect was the reservation made by the learned Chief Justice in the pi...sent case about the journey being the usual long trip journey of the steamers and the fares chared being normal fares. [...] Within the four corners of the orignal Aryavarta the Vaidyas are not classed as a separate caste but it is in Bengal which is east of Xarmanasa the word is used to designate persons who have adopted the practice of medicine as their means of livelhood but who haveretaiined all the privileges and duties of Brahmins in the matter of waship and the reading of Vedas and the prac-. tiCe of [...] The meth a of treatment is the usual method of the authors—not merely to write a case-noted commentary on the statutes but to envisage practical transactions and then deal with the problems that its several aspect; would prsent to a party It is in accordance with this plan that the texts of the Acts are relegated to a separate section towards the end of the book and that the main treatment is [...] The case of the Company was that the starting station of its steamer service was ghat C and the terminal station was a station far down the river: near Calcutta and that in the course of the journey it had a right to carry passengers for any limited portion of the entire long trip particularly from ghat C to ghats A and B and Quring the return journey from ghats A and B to ghat C. The Magistrate