The Calcutta Weekly Notes July 23 1951

Section 163 of the Bengal Tenancy Act provides three methods of bringing a proposed sale to the notice of the judgment-debtor first by beat of drum on or near the laInd to he sold secondly by affixation of a copy in a conspicuous place at the court-house of the issuing court; and thirdly by direct service of concise statement by registered post on the judgment-ebtor himself. [...] The principle deducible from the judment of the Judicial Committee is that in cases where the material irregularity is brought about by a measure of carelessness on the part of the Court and a party sustains ijury on that account the sale is consdered to be void and no question of limittion arises. [...] figure is stated by the Court and the public be left to consider the figure to be clothed with the sanctity of the figure of the Court it cannot be said that the Court was not to blame for carelessness for incluing such a wrong figure. [...] It is obvious at least to Asians that the movement for the nationalisation of the An lo-Iranian Oil Company is vital for the well-being of the people of Iran and is an expression of the desire of that people to claim possession of their most important rational asset. [...] When after some fifty years -of the most splendid oil prodution by the Company the vast majority of Iran's population live in the most abject poverty it is the height of hypocrisy for the Company--and its protector the Goernment of Britain--to say as it is saying with a certain audacity that out of benvolence for Iranians it cannot leave the country's greatest single asset in the h