The Calcutta Weekly Notes August 8 1949

147oxlviii THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES ma Critics in their usual pathetically futile fashion called the proposals a drastic and a most unwarrantable blow to democracy." But of course the President is to be " the guardian of liberty and keeper of the demcratic conscience." Moreover similar provisions exist the " dismayed " makers of our constitution were told in the American Constitution. [...] Suits and Proceedings which have been removed from the Prospective List or the Warning List or from any Peremtory List and which have not re-appeared in any of the said lists on the expiry of three months from the date of such rmoval or if removed by an order of the Court or the Judge on the expiry of the period specified by the Court or the Judge while directing the removal thereof from an [...] The book is sure to be a great help both to lawyers and the public in the understanding of the problems connected with the Banking Companies Act. [...] Where the Legislature by a provision in an Act ousts the jurisdiction of the High Court in respect of suits for recovery of rent between landlord and tenant those provisions must be construed strictly and against ouster and accordingly a suit by a tenant for the recovery of excess rent or pugree (additional payments in the nature of fine or premium) cannot be said to fall within the said eclude [...] In order to determine the nature of a suit for the purpose of ascertaining the jurisdiction of a Court as above it should accept the averments made by the Plaintiffs in the plaint.