The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters July to December 1937

2. In Article 149 in the First Division of the First Schedule to the Indian Limitation Act 1905 to the entry in the first column the following words shall be added namely :— except a suit before the Federal Court in the exercise of its original jurisdiction ". Notes:—Article 149 of the Indian Limitation Act (IX of Ica) prescribes a special period of limitation of 6o years fir any suit by or on [...] In such cases however on the analogy of 0. 33 r. To of the Code of Civil Procedure the Court has a first charge on the subject matter of the pauper petition that is on the estate of the deceased. [...] The Federal Court of India started on its career on Monday the 6th of December 1937 in the presence of a unique gathering of representatives of the Bench and the Bar from many parts of India. [...] But the presence here to-day of four Chief Justices of High Courts and a number of high dignitaries of the Executive the courages the hope that the civil any judicial authorities in h country will be helpful and will not suffer any diminution of the authority and dignity of the Federal Court. [...] This is the first All-India Court of Law and we may see in the Supreme Court of Canada and the High Court of Australia also in that Great Tribunal the Supreme Court of the United States powerful forces which such a Court is able to realise and direct and the far-reaching influence which it may exercise upon the history and fortunes of a State It becomes at once a crucible wherein the flax of c