The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and Other Matters October 1 & 16 1905

After reviewing the history of the action of debt and of assumpsit even an acute thinker like Chief Justice Holmes comes to the conclusion that the only universal consequence of a legally binding promise is that the law makes the promisor pay damages if the promised event does not come to pass. [...] Chaucer in the Friar’s Tale mentions contracts as a subject-matter of the jurisdiction of the archdeacon (3) and in the matter of a cotract to marry the Ecclesiastical Courts in olden times did exercise a jurisdiction very much in the nature of specific performance. [...] (5) Researches of scholars have discovered traces of the jurisdiction in the records of the Court of Chancery even in the reign of Richard II. [...] P. Code stating that the verdict was perverse and contrary to the evidence and that the reasons given by the foreman for the verdict appear. [...] 147 I. P. C. The Judge disagreed with the verdict of the majority and referred the case to the High Court stating that in his opinion the first accused ought to be convicted under Sec.