The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters January 1 1908

Shore* had endeavoured to trace the origin of the system and he supposed it to have arisen from the custom established in that province of dividing the produce between the cultivator and Government in order to afford the proprietor of the soil a pro-. [...] And at the time of the Permanent Settlment of Bengal Behar and Orissa these proprietors whose lands were held khas or let in farm in consequence of their refusing to pay the assessment required of them under the Regulations for the decennial settlement were given an opportunity of being retored to the management of their lands upon their agreeing to the payment of the assessment which we [...] Should there be default in pament of the rent of Government and the malikana payable to the zemindar the rights and privileges of the grantee are to be sold to the best bidder for the liquidation of the demand against him. [...] The defendants agreed to engage the plaintiff who was an actor for the principal part in pantomime at a salary of 113o per week for the first year.-14o a week for the second year and 15o a week for.the third year with the option in consideration of the engagement of retaining the plaintiff's services °it the same terms and conditions as set forth in the agreement for the following pantomi [...] Where damage to land and buildings has been caused by the working of the minerals underneath in assessing the damages recoverable from the mineral owner the depreciation in the market value of the land and buildings attributable to the apprhension of further subsidence caused by the past working cannot be taken into account.