The Calcutta Law Journal. Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters. January to June 1926

The authors have given in a brief compass a lucid exposition of the leading principles of the law of pleading and laid their fingers more particularly on the outstanding faults of the current errors and defects. [...] nate however that none of the authora have any acquaintance with the practice of law in India and the absence of the knowledge of the actual difficulties of the practising lawyers in India takes off somwhat from the practical utility of the book. [...] But as the law stands this bequest fails as the object of the legatee society amounts to a negation of the Christian religion which is so far a part of the law of England that no English Court would give its support to the carrying out of a purpose inconsistent with its teachings' said the Lord Chancellor in substance. [...] The reaction after the last war the idealism that koternational warfare has originated and the working of organisations like the League of Nations have created a demand for a systematic study of subject peoples in the various stages of world history. [...] The County Court had found that the disease from which the appellant was suffering was due to the shipwreck and that the notice had been given as soon as practicable in fact as soon as he had discovered the connection between the shipwreck and his diseate and that looking at the facts of the case and considering the medical obscurity the appellant's delay in giving notice was considered reason