The Calcutta Weekly Notes February 11 1946

Now that the United Nations Organisation has replaced the League of Nations and a new chapter fraught with immense possibilities has opened in the sphere of international relatioships the role of the reconstituted International Court of Justice is bound to be important. [...] lie is of course a nominee of the India Government which as everyone in the world knows does not represent the people of this country. [...] Therefore the long-standing practice prevailing in this country to treat a kabuliyat executed by the lessee and accepted by the lessor as the instrument creating a tenancy has not in any way been affected by the Tranfer of Property Act. [...] 1f the terms of settlement mutually agreed upon between the landlord and the teant and embodied in a kabuliyat executed by the lessee and registered in accordance with the prvisions of sec. [...] 17 of the Registration Act are acepted by the landlord in the sense of acceptance of rent and grant of receipts to the tenant in acknowledgment of payment of rent a valid agrcultural lease is created in law.