The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday June 2 1919

The Home Secretary on behalf of His would be borne out by the notes appended to Excellency the Viceroy has sent the following r. 25 in the Manual of Military Law published reply to the Junior Advocate of the Calcutta by the Government of India in ]918. [...] 8 of the Defence of India Act (IV of 1915) which purport to oust the revisional jurisdiction of the Chartered High Courts in India in respect of the new species of Colufs which the Government of India. [...] Appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeal affirming Horridge J. The wife petitioned for a divorce and the husband pleaded thal the parties were domiciled in the British Protetorate of Egypt and that the English Court had no jurisdiction to entertain a suit for disolution. [...] The appeal was allowed and the Lord Chancellor in the course of his judgment said :— The Consular jurisdiction over British sujects in Egypt was exercised under an Order in Council of November 7 1910 modified as regards Egypt by the Egyptian Order in Council of February 6 1915 which was made after the renunciation of allegiance to Turkey and the constitution of Egypt as a separate Sultana [...] In appeal to this'Court it was argued by the learned Vakil for the Appellants that thdenial of Plaintiffs' title in the written statment and the Defendants' allegation that they had a right of easement gave the Plaintiffs a cause of action : Held—That the statement made by the De.