The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes of 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 April 1 1940

under nothing more important than a powerful the Act the tax is to be assessed on every propagandist of the creed to which he was " person " and the word " person " which is for the time being subscribing. [...] 18 of nition given in the Bengal General Clauses the B. A. D. Act lays down " that a decree Act should apply to the Finance Act which of a Civil Court relating to a debt shall be is an Act of the Bengal Legislature. [...] quently the decree-holder applied to the To Court for the execution of the decree but THE EDITOR " CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES." the judgment-debtor got it stayed accorSIR ing to sec. [...] nal Procedure Code and it clearly indicates When sanction is given by the Court to that the attention of a witness is to be called a certain number of persons ex nominee to to the previous statement before the writing prosecute or defend a suit and one of them can be proved. [...] If the witness admits the dies the proper procedure is for the remaiprevious statement or explains any discring persons to apply to the Court for direpancy or contradiction it obviously makes tions ; and it is for the Court to decide whit unnecessary for the statement thereafter ther it will permit the remaining persons to to be proved.