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

For in such a case the contract is broken if at all as soon as it is made and the primary obligation necessarily coincides with the secondary or sanctioning obligation to pay damages." But where the assurance is in respect of something which is to happen in the future the value of the liability as we have seen will be determined by the nature of the subject-matter of the promise whether i [...] The exhautive notes to the various sections deal with the subject from the pratical point of view and refer to all the important rulings under the present as well as the former law published up to the date of the issue of the work. [...] With reference to the argument that the covenant did not create an interest in land and was therefore beyond the mischief of the Rule against perpetuities the learned Judge in the Court of first instance observed that if it was a merely personal covenant it could not be enforced against the assignee ; on the other hand if the right to call for a conveyance of the land bound the land and created [...] presented a Petition of Right in which they alleged that before the out-break of war between the late South African Republic and Great Britain gold the produce of a mine in the Republic owned by the petitioners had been taken from them by officials acting on behalf of the Government of the Republic that the Government by the laws of the Republic was liable to return the gold or its value to the [...] The Master of the Rolls in Ireland decided that a present right to receive a legacy does not arise till the end of the executor's year because till the end of a year from the death of the testator the legatee has no power to compel payment of his legacy.