Calcutta Weekly Notes. Federal Reports 1939

but on the other hand it cannot mean that the very act which constitutes the offence should be the official duty of the servant of the Crown nor it is necessary that the act should be done directly in pursuance of the office nor that the act should be so inseparably connected with the official duty as to form a part and parcel of the same transaction. [...] 205 and 209 (1) of the Constitution Act the Federal Court in the exercise of its apellate jurisdiction has power to take: notice of a law passed since the High Court gave its decision and then remit the case to the High Court with a declaration that there shall be substituted for the judgment decree or order of the High Court a judment decree or order which recognises the state of the law [...] The duty of a Court in interpreting the Government of India Act 1935 is to acertain the meaning and intention of Parliament from the language of the Statute itself ; but with the motives of Parliament it has no concern. [...] The duty of a Court in interpreting the Government of India Act 1935 is to acertain the meaning and intention of Parliament from the language of the Statute itself; but with the motives of Parliament it has no concern. [...] The Tax levied by the Act is a duty of Excise within the meaning of Entry 45 of the Federal Legislative List (List I) of the seventh schedule of the Goverment of India Act 1935.