The Calcutta Law Journal January 1 1914

Before the passing of Regulation XXVII of 1814 the payment of the retaining fee together with the vakalutnamah created the rights and liabilities of the pleader but after the passing of that Regulation vakalutnamah alone created and does create such rights and liabilities. [...] At the present time the rules for admission of vakils of High Court are not framed by the Legislature but by the High Court under power conferred on it by section to of the Letters Patent of 1865 and §§ 4 and 5 of Act XVIII of 1879. [...] SIR The Chief Justice directs me to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 24th instant written by the direction of the Governor-General and Council enclosing the 49th paragraph of a letter of the Court of Directors dated 27th May last acquaining him that Thomas Henry Davies has come to India without the' license of the Directors and is arrived in Calcutta and that tlie. [...] As this paragraph nowise relates personally to him on the business of the Court and he is not honored with the reasons which have induced the Governor-General and Council to make a notification to him of a paragraph which simply conveys an order to them the only purpose for which he can surmise that it is intended is that it may operate to prevent the assent of the Chief Justice to the admissio [...] From the moment I left England to the very moment I received the intelligence of the order in India I did not entertain a doubt of the Court of Directors granting me their perntssion to come out here and the last letter I wrote before I embarked was to the Gentleman who has the care of my affairs in England to watch for the first opportunity of transmitting the License of the Company to me.