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 September 12 1938

The amenment has taken away the "privileged position of Coperative Societies under the proviso to Sub-clause (izi) under clause (i) of suction 6o of the Code as in the opinion of the Government of India it is unnecessary to continue the priviledge ". The Royal Commission of Labour recommended that wages and salaries of workmen receiving less_ than Rs. [...] The present amendment and the action of the Government of India proceeded on the lines suggested by the Commission. [...] Up till 11477 the whole of the salary et the public officer was attachable as debt " To enable a public officer to mantain himself and his family one half of the salary was for the first time exempted from attachment in the Code of 1877 by the new proviso (h) in section 266 of the Code. [...] 1. Act X of 1877—Clause " h " of sec 266 " one moiety of the salary of a public officer or of the servant of Railway Company." 2 Act XIV of 1882—Clause " h" of sec 266 the salry of a public officer or of any servant of a way company or locai authority to the extent of : — (1) the whole of the salary where the salary does not exceed twenty rupees monthly ; (ii) twenty rupees monthly where the [...] While it may well be that the Cacutta order of adjudication involved the ajudication of the Rangoon firm it is not quite the same thing as saying that they constitute the same debtor " which is the necessary qualification for the exercise of jurisdiction under sec.