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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 Short Notes of Important Decisions of other High Courts in India Monday May 6 1935

1935

In a previous issue we referred to the views expressed by the Law journal on the representation submitted by the legal prfession in Calcutta on the proposals made by the Joint Select Committee regarding the Judicature in India. [...] The account is the following :- We referred recently to a representation which has been sent by the Bar and 'other Legal socities in Calcutta against certain provisions of the India Bill which inight have the effect of admitting to the higher judicial posts in India civil servants who have not had the requisite legal training and experence and we expressed the hope that the representation wo [...] Galbraith K.0 moved an amendment to provide that the Chief Justice should be a barrister of England or Northern Ireland of at least 15 years' standing or a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland of the like standing and in the course of his speech he read the most important part of the reprsentation to which we have referred. [...] Though the law is well settled that the marginal notes are no part of an Act and cannot be refered to in construing a section still for the sake of consistency the notes in the margin of the section as amended shall be replaced by the words " Right of a tenant to make iprovements in respect of his holding." As the correction suggested is purely a formal one it can be made if and when th [...] In the present case the omission of the opening words of the old section wh:ch limited the right to raiyats holding at fixed rates and occupancy raiyats leaves no doubt that the section now applies to all classes of tenants and that the marginal note is inapposite.
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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 Short Notes of Important Decisions of other High Courts in India Monday May 6 1935
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