The Calcutta Law Journal. 1st July 1929

The question was whether the cheque having been discharged by paynlent power was left to the Purulia branch to sue for recovery of amount from defendants t and 2 : Held (per Das and James jf.) that the payment having been made by the Purulia branch on the credit of its local constituent and not on the credit of the person originally issuing the cheque the branch making the payment can institute a [...] The question was whether the Subordinate Judge's acceptance of the admission of defendent tenant and rejection of his evidence was proper : Held' (per Das and James jj.) that the entire onus lay on the defendant: to satisfy the Court what was the produce during the years in suit. [...] The following observations of the Supreme Court of the Unied States of America were cited with approval :- When the Government which originates in revolution or revolt is recognised by the political department of our Goverment as the de lure Government of the country in which it is established such recognition is retrospective in effect and validates the actions and conduct of the Governme [...] The greatest difficulty in this branch of the law in India has been the importation of English notions and the imposition of English practice on the totally different conditions obtaining in this country. [...] Even in the case of the High Courts the successors of the Supreme Courts the testamentary jurisdiction which the charters purported to cofer upon them was not given as a branch of ecclesiastical jurisdition and was not made dependent upon the law administered by English Courts.