When his Honour Judge Peter Grain took his seat on the bench in H. M. Supreme Court on Thurs-lay, Inv. Tycho Wing vase and said:
"If your Lordship pleases, I have an application to make' in respect of a matter which is not on the cause list, nisi calling upon E. A. Nottingham and G. Burton Sayer, respectively, proprietor and editor of the "Shanghai Times," to show cause why they should not be attached for contempt of court in describing one Gujjan Singh, as the "notorious Gujjan Singh."
Counsel went on to say that li report of a case now proceeding LIH, M. police court, in which Gujjan Singh is charged with] conspiracy, the "Shanghai in an issue dated June 15, published a headline to their report containing the expression of which he now complained. Counsel contended that the word "notorious" was closely akin to "infamous" and was a term of opprobrium. He had not had time to go through many di tionaries but from the ones he had ne seen, the term "notorious" was defined as follows:—
or Known Di " New Yo of, manifest (0 the world, one konerally used predicatively, hed ttrivativey Uke word ety fnotabiy inn' bad een Dat not favourably: known.
Funk and Wagnalls Now York publicly" fubjeet of the world? favourably known to 1 wiley, "oe Sor (ace ty inst bad tense), fest, evident, patent, Counsel submitted ly entitled to remarked that his Lordship was empowered to grant the order as, although at home such an appli tion would have to be made before judges, his Lordship of the King's Bench ing in bane. quite agree ay to lotion but there is one other: thing: whether your affidavits show contempt, Counsel: I think, my Lord, they: are sufficient for the purpose.
His Lordship: Well, 1 will grant' a rule divi subject to your Bling another affidavit stating that your client has been called "noter and that a contempt of court has been committed. The case to be argued before the court in seven lays.
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