The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles & Other Matters December 1 1913

The Calcutta Law Journal was started in the year 1905 with the Permission of the Calcutta High Court under the auspices of a strong and representative Editorial Committee and with a staff of Reporters from all the different branches of the Profession. [...] Rash Behari Ghose who by their labour enriched the legal literature of Bengal and influenced the making and moulding of the laws of the country we shall take up the third branch in the first place then we shall examine the annals of the other two branches. [...] The very slight knowledge which they in general possessed of the Mahomedan or Hindu Law and their still more limited acquaintance with the regulations passed by the British Government (upon which the security of the persons and property of the inhabitants of these provinces chiefly depends) rendered them incapable of urging the best arguments in support of the claims of their constituents or of [...] Equally with the first de scription of vakeels they were little versed in the laws and regulat ions of the country and not having the protection of a public character and their situation in the Court not being defined by any regulations of Government they were subject in the samed egree to the intrigues and assumed influence of the ministerial officers of the Courts and unable to protect thei [...] The chief merit of the work consists in the lucidity of the statement of the leading principles of each topic.